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...Gandhi insisted that the abrupt suppression of political dissent was "not a personal matter. It is not important whether I remain Prime Minister or not. However, the institution of the Prune Minister is important." Despite the argument, many Western critics felt that the imperious Mrs. Gandhi-rather like Richard Nixon during the Watergate crisis-had come to identify her own survival in office with the office itself. As the president of her ruling Congress...
...REPRESSING DISSENT: Illegal acts that foment social disorder and confusion in the face of threats of aggression from the North must be controlled to safeguard the basic rights of the majority. People [who] criticize what we do in Korea measure the situation with the same yardstick that they use in the U.S. Here the situation is much more desperate. Only 25 miles from Seoul, an enemy is bent on destroying us. We can not allow disorder. If we liberalize internally, if we let the students riot and the workers go on strike, the resulting confusion will be utilized...
Last week a five-member panel of priests and laymen voted 3 to 2 to find Wendt guilty. The three priests in the majority (the two dissenters were the laymen) urged Washington Bishop William Creighton to "admonish" Wendt and forbid him to permit "any person whose ordination is not in conformity with the canons of the church"-like one of the women priests, for instance-to function as a minister in his parish. At a press conference, Wendt called his sentence "a real slap on the wrist" and said that he would appeal the conviction or seek a new trial...
...Daly said "no one can say there won't be dissent in Cambridge to any event including the Second Coming. I do believe we've made great progress with many persons and organizations in Cambridge...
Black's critics charge that he was unable to delegate authority or tolerate dissent. Some of them also claim that he was severely debilitated during the last months of his life by reliance on a sedative and that he took it in large doses that affected his memory and judgment. Black's supporters, on the other hand, claim that Gelsthorpe and his allies in Boston cooked up a "Caine mutiny" against Black. The friction got so explosive that at one board meeting, when a director called in from a yacht in the Caribbean to vote for a slate...