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BESIDES BEING an uncalled-for personal slight, President Bok's decision not to name Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, to the advisory board of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research is representative of an unreasonable and small-minded attitude toward dissent in the University. Because he balked at policies formulated by the administration, Guinier has been removed from a decision-making process that he should be an integral part of because of his role as Afro's only tenured professor...
...Marxist government, the Allende regime had moved relatively slowly toward suppressing free institutions. But the CIA believed it was only a matter of time before all dissent would be muffled. Approximately half the CIA funds were funneled to the opposition press, notably the nation's leading daily El Mercurio; Allende had steered government advertising to the papers supporting him while encouraging newsprint prices to rise high enough to bankrupt the others. Additional CIA funds went to opposition politicians, private businesses and trade unions. "What we were really doing was supporting a civilian resistance movement against an arbitrary government," argues...
...effects of the incident continued to be felt. The police action had converted a minor act of dissent into an embarrassing political incident that was headlined next day in newspapers across the world. Soviet authorities indeed seemed to react to the unfavorable publicity. Though there had been no official word from the government, at week's end one of the artists told foreign newsmen that permission had been granted to hold another exhibit at a different site this week...
...Ford told the group that if it succeeded in finding answers to inflation, "there will be statues of each of you in every city park throughout the U.S." Democrat Walter Heller remarked: "It is refreshing to be in a White House open to a little laughter again, and to dissent...
...what Kadushin calls "lunch distance" of New York -a 50-mile limit he considers convenient for day trips to the city. Wherever they live, these intellectuals are well paid (average income: $35,000 a year). They write most frequently in such magazines as Partisan Review, the New Republic, Commentary, Dissent and the New York Review of Books...