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...Castro's style of governing has changed. He still runs a police state that tolerates no dissent, but he has started to curb the whimsical use of power by institutionalizing government processes. The bureaucracy has greater authority, and instead of ad hoc economic decisions there is now a Five-Year Plan. These changes aim, in part, at improving living standards. Although Cubans now eat better, are healthier and claim the highest literacy rate in Latin America, there are still enormous shortages of all kinds of goods. Only through normalized relations with other nations of the hemisphere can Cuba obtain...
...President thus apparently was left-at least temporarily-to the ordinary processes of the judicial system. That seemed to be precisely how representatives of the nation's legal profession prefer to resolve the matter. Meeting in Hawaii, the American Bar Association (see THE LAW) vocally approved without dissent a resolution noting that "the foundation of the American system of law is equal justice under law" and that the law must be applied impartially "regardless of the position or status of any individual alleged to have violated...
Since January, 280 critics of the regime, most of them students, have been arrested under decrees making political dissent a crime-in some cases punishable by death. Park has tried to justify the harsh measure as a defense against a Communist takeover, but his critics claim that his real motive is to eliminate his domestic opponents...
Stone to call his book on the period The Haunted Fifties. Historian Fred J. Cook is harsher: his volume is entitled The Nightmare Decade. "To the young generation of today," writes Cook, "it may seem fantastic that for a whole decade there was hardly a whisper of dissent in the land." It was not necessarily for want of courage. Public protest and massive dissent were akin to the four-minute mile: until the first demonstration, the feat was assumed to be impossible; after that, the deluge...
...instance, raises only briefly the question of the Intellectual Left's motivation as it gradually got on the bandwagon of dissent in the early 60s. Were these self-proclaimed champions of the nation's moral conscience reacting to a longstanding conviction that U.S. military interference in Indochina was wrong or were they goaded into saving face in light of the increasing protest to American policy that was growing on college campuses? Why had they not come forward when the initial bent of American policy in Vietnam was being openly set by the Kennedy administration? Did it have something...