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...style and continuity of this paper would strongly advise me not to write an article in the first person. For purposes of this discussion, I will disregard the suggestion. Some observers might call the infraction self-indulgent at the very least, but those who understand the purpose of healthy dissent will accept it for the possibility it offers of doing some good...
That day after the South Carolina defeat, Connally, his closest advisers, his wife Nellie and his oldest son John B. III flew home. For 5½ hr. in flight they mulled over his chances. With little dissent and little anguish, Connally reached his decision. In Houston, Nellie's arm was around him, patting him gently as he announced, his eyes moistening slightly, that he did not "intend ever to be a candidate again...
...largest workers union in France. The party's perplexing silence on the exile of scientist Andrei Sakharov has alienated academics and intellectuals. Not since 1956, when Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin threw the PCF and its hard line Stalinism into a blender, has the party experienced such internal dissent. As the party splits, a tight-knit nucleus of traditional militants assumes control, ignoring the petitions of frustrated members...
Guatemala's military government is regarded by much of Latin America as particularly brutal in its suppression of peasant dissent. Usually, its actions against insurgent campesinos take place in provincial backwaters, thus escaping widespread attention. This time, however, the regime moved against a foreign embassy in the full glare of worldwide publicity. Said one diplomat in Mexico City: "It is worse than the Iranian hostage business. This is outright murder...
Douglas was suspicious of the coercive power of Government. He anticipated the Miranda decision of 1966 by arguing, usually in dissent, that the criminally accused should have immediate access to a lawyer and the right to remain silent after arrest. He voted against letting the state use evidence obtained by "unreasonable search and seizure." Privacy was almost an obsession with him; in 1973 he said he was "morally certain" that the court's conference room had been bugged. In a famous 1965 decision striking down a Connecticut law that banned the use of contraceptives, Douglas stated that whether...