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After the returns were in and the left had lost, the accusations began to fly in earnest, and not merely over how the party had blown the election. Critics were angrier still over the autocratic attitude of their leaders at a time when the winds of democratic expression and dissent were blowing through the more liberal and independent Communist parties in Italy and Spain. When a party stalwart at one cell meeting in Paris started to pin the election disaster on the Socialists, a disbelieving listener suddenly rose to declare: "It is scandalous that comrades cannot express themselves here." That...
...Though dissent is not welcome within the pages of L'Humanité, the party paper, critics have had little difficulty finding other forums. Six party intellectuals, writing collectively in Le Monde, charged that the central committee's "no responsibility" position was contrary to the "need for broad and profound reflection on what has happened." Jacques Frémontier, editor of the party magazine Action, penned an open letter of resignation to Marchais: "We made a mistake−on the Socialist Party, on power, on the Common Program, on the union of the left, on tactics...
...dissent, Justices Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens argued that the court had used the Presidential Recordings Act to frustrate the law's own purpose. Congress clearly intended, Marshall wrote, to ensure the American people "full access to all facts about the Watergate affair." Added Stevens: "For this court now to rely on the act as a basis for reversing the trial judge's considered judgment is ironic, to put it mildly...
Most NATO admirals and generals back the neutron bomb because of its advantages over existing tactical warheads, but their civilian leaders have reacted more coolly, and some military men also voice dissent. British Admiral of the Fleet Sir Peter Hill-Norton dismisses the neutron bomb as "sexy for the media [but] a new dimension of warfare that we do not want to go into." The Dutch are attempting to keep the bomb out of the NATO arsenal and Christian Democratic Leader Willem Aantjes declared last week that the false report of Carter's decision was "extremely good news" because...
When Arnold Miller, 54, rode the wave of miners' dissent into power, he promised to democratize the union. That he did-the expired contract was the first ever to be voted on by the membership. "In the old days," says a West Virginia district leader, "a contract was sent down and the membership just went back to work. Now you have all this freedom...