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Acute Sensitivity. Kim's trial is a patently political attempt to muffle dissent. So is a second trial that began at week's end. This one involves 54 of the 253 people still under arrest since last April, when more than 2,000 university students attempted to stage a demonstration against the Park regime. Among the accused is 33-year-old Kim Chi Ha, South Korea's best-known poet, whose The Cry of the People-a 2,600-word broadside against repression, corruption and abuse of power-has deeply offended the government. Also on trial...
...Fulbright gave respectability to the dissent," says Senator Frank Church, a committee member. Just as Fulbright's hearings clearly helped get the U.S. out of Viet Nam, his pleas over the years for realism and compromise contributed to the foundations of detente and Nixon's visits to Moscow and Peking...
...NONE OF THIS is news. Degler finds most of his other Southerners in secondary sources, although he has explored many of the manuscript collections at the University of North Carolina, Duke University, and state archives. The newness lies in the united presentation of these dissenting figures. Even here, though, Degler's book is burdened by some of the same assumptions that he disputes when they appear in the Southern legend. A study of all dissent in the South across 100 years of history must become overly general or excessively descriptive, skipping crucial questions that apply within specific time periods...
...that historians are moving closer to quantification as a basis for studying past movements, Degler's subject matter puts him at a disadvantage. While he may march through studies of Southern dissent predating the Nullification crisis of the 1830s and continuing until around 1900, he cannot take a census of the Other South. Like the "Southern liberals" in the 1940s and 50s, the majority of nineteenth century dissenting Southerners were silent and they had few spokesmen in the raging debates of their times. Those who left records of their views--writers, newspaper editors, business leaders or politicians--had some access...
BECAUSE OF the scattered, incomplete nature of the material Degler treats, his study often reads like a scrapbook of Southern dissent. Even so, some of the vignettes point toward larger questions that warrant exploration. For instance, the frequent tendency of Southern blacks as well as whites during Reconstruction to follow native-born leaders (scalawags) instead of the Northern carpetbaggers, and the daily examples of cooperation between the races during the Reconstruction period...