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...private meetings with Carter, Vance finally said he would resign if the rescue mission went through. Carter asked him to stay. Vance said he would continue in office if he could dissent publicly about the mission. Carter reluctantly agreed, and Vance left the Oval Office. But after a few minutes he returned. "Forget I said that," he told the President, and then explained that he felt it would be wrong for him to make public his lack of support for such an important venture...
...academic freedom is the avoidance of the dictatorship of orthodoxies that make no real effort to separate their commitment to certain intellectual traditions from their evaluations of candidates. The two levels are directly linked to all branches of social thought: a politically adversarial stance is often accompanied by dissent from the ruling theoretical practices in a discipline...
...that was ten years ago, when the war in Indochina served as a stark, dramatic reminder of the way our country is run. Today, there is less discussion, less dissent--but not because the system has changed. American imperialism of the sort exemplified by the invasion of Cambodia and the shah of Iran continues around the world. At home, our nation's leaders cut social spending and try to force a recession while they continue to pay billions for missiles. Our government backs nuclear power, allows schools to deteriorate and sells elections to the highest bidder--in short it serves...
Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, said recently that while the Soviets probably will not stage a direct invasion of Yugoslavia, they will attempt to exploit dissent within the country...
...dissent, Justice Lewis Powell attacked the decision for "vague and sweeping language" and suggested that it would create "a national civil service system" run by judges. Another critic, John Gunther, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, expressed concern that the ruling might produce "a government of eunuchs." Said he: "I don't see how you can carry out policy that way. People go to the polls for a change. That's not just one person. It's staff as well...