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...after day they marched, tens of thousands strong, defiant chanting demonstrators surging through the streets of Tehran, a capital unaccustomed to the shouts and echoes of dissent. The subject of their protest was the policies of Iran's supreme ruler, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Some carried signs demanding his ouster. Others called for a return of long denied civil and political liberties and the enforcement of Islamic laws. A few even demanded the legalization of the Tudeh, Iran's outlawed Communist party. The crowd, at times numbering more than 100,000, was a colorful, sometimes incongruous cross section of Iranian...
...Shah's problems are magnified by the fact that the opposition does not arise from a single political sector, like the communists, or a single cultural group, like the religious conservatives, who remain his most vocal and articulate foes. The dissent cuts across class, religious and political divisions, ranging from Marxist students on the extreme left to Western-educated intellectuals, professionals and businessmen in the center to religious zealots on the far right. The mullahs, for all their abhorrence of the decadent excesses of modernism, have traditionally been political progressives and nationalists in their outlook...
...Medical School's new director of admissions, Paul was pushing for the elimination of a special minority admissions subcommittee to the full admissions committee; and he was doing so in the face of unanimous opposition from the full committee, ardent lobbying by Third World and minority students, and ruffled dissent from the rest of the Med School faculty...
...only in the sense that he was rash enough to protest the arrest of his friends for political activism. If he will recant and confess his error, he can be released when ever he wants. "Your opinions are your symptoms," explains his doctor (Remak Ramsay). "Your disease is dissent...
...confidence." Kenneth Baker, editor of the conservative Homiletic and Pastoral Review, pleads the opposite: "We need a Pope who overcomes the confusion over what it means to be a Catholic. The seminaries are a shambles. We need clear directives about what the church stands for, clear lines for dissent." Baker and McBrien agree that a middle-of-the-roader will only enhance drift and decline...