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Under Assad, Syrians of late no longer worry about sudden, late-night visits by secret police. But the government is vigilant about dissent, and the occasional crackdowns can be both swift and harsh. Last April, for example, 200 people were rounded up and imprisoned on the eve of the Baath Party Congress, probably because they were not Assad men. Publicly, however, they were charged with aiding Iraq, which is governed by a rival wing of the Baath movement. Although relations between Baghdad and Damascus have improved, the two neighbors have frequently been at the brink of war - sometimes over ideology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: The First Arab on the Second Front | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...behind his opinions. Concedes Law Professor Charles Ares of the University of Arizona, once Douglas' clerk: "His impatience with dressing up his opinions with careful arguments will probably cause Douglas not to be ranked right at the top by the experts." For almost 37 years -first mostly in dissent, then as part of the Warren Court majority, finally in dissent once more-he etched a record that above all marked him as the most doctrinaire and committed civil libertarian ever to sit on the court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Court's Uncompromising Libertarian | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

Most of the criticism focused on the summary dismissal of Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, an iconoclastic intellectual who says what he thinks ?often in a prickly way. Was the reason for the firing his strong dissent from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's brand of détente? Or was it that Ford considered him overly acerbic, abrasive, aggressive? The answer, it seemed, was a combination of both, with the personal motive outweighing the policy problem. A President is certainly entitled to fire advisers with whom he cannot work. But a self-assured President should also be tolerant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: FORD'S COSTLY PURGE | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

Protecting Dissent. Last week Kissinger reiterated to Pike's panel that he was not suppressing any embarrassing information, but trying to maintain State Department morale and efficiency. At issue was a memo written by a desk officer criticizing U.S. policy in Cyprus. Kissinger argued persuasively that lower-level policy recommendations should not be turned over to Congress with the names of the authors attached. Reason: State Department staffers might then hedge their recommendations for fear that they could be dragged before Congress to justify them-as happened in the Joe McCarthy era. Kissinger again offered to supply summaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Making a Splash, Missing the Point | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...virtue still come from church and synagogue. If today there is some backlash against grand-scale attempts by religious leaders to tie sacred texts to particular social policies-as often occurred during the demonstrations and churchly pronouncements in the battle for civil rights and during Viet Nam War dissent-in thousands of local situations religious people are putting their faith to work. In this way, they and their nonreligious allies may be regaining confidence for larger moral ventures by starting close to home, serving the aged, the hooked, the alienated, the lonely. While they might not be satisfied or happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: Vice and Virtue: Our Moral Condition | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

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