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...danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect 'domestic security.'" So wrote Justice Lewis Powell, a Nixon appointee, in the 1972 Supreme Court opinion that forbade the wiretapping of domestic organizations and individuals without a court warrant. Ironically, the court issued its decree just two days after the Watergate conspirators were caught with electronic surveillance equipment in the headquarters of the Democratic National Party-a legitimate political dissent organization if there ever...
None of these controversies will ever be the same again, at least for the balance of Nixon's term, and one hopes for longer. Congress is stronger than it was a month ago. The courts are stronger. The citizen's rights of dissent and skepticism are fortified...
...weakness was his lack of firsthand knowledge of the land and people outside Saigon. He spoke neither French nor Vietnamese. He learned about Viet Nam largely through briefings, refined and delivered by optimistic senior staffers who drew their information from men in the field but filtered out doubt and dissent...
...Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, the man who helped devise the controversial designated-hitter rule, has worked up another idea to give new punch to the old game. He wants umpires to take a cooler attitude toward the heated attacks of players and managers who dissent from a call. Free and open discussion, says Kuhn, is "the American way." Though Kuhn has not yet specified what indignities short of an uppercut should now be endured in the name of free speech, the new permissiveness might help revive the declining art of umpire baiting. Take the case of Cincinnati Reds Manager Sparky...
...University's stand against requiring G.E. to disclose its Defense Department contracts and to study ways of converting to peacetime production provoked student criticism, but on the Corporation's subcommittee on shareholder responsibility itself, the only dissent came on the votes against managements...