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...peace in Vietnam. It would be a monstrous mistake to think that the matter is entirely out of our hands. There is a part for us to play in the global scenario now unfolding. The terror bombing of Hanoi provoked an unprecedented public and Congressional outerv, and such dissent remains the strongest constraint on Nixon's further pursuit of a disguised American victory Instead of eliminating the need for mass anyway demonstrations the recent developments in Paris have made them a clear necessity...
...confined their criticism of liberals to the secular area. Andrew Greeley, the Chicago priest-sociologist who is proud to be an Irishman and a friend of Mayor Daley's, has broadened the attack to the religious front. "Let us be clear at the beginning: this is a volume of dissent," he says in Unsecular Man. "It rejects most of the conventional wisdom about the contemporary religious situation." The conventional wisdom he rejects is the "pop-sociological-religious analysis which has become part of the American intellectual preconscious...
...course included getting out of Viet Nam. The President was re-elected by a landslide. But now Nixon is ripping this consensus to pieces. The President is picking and tearing at the most sensitive nerve and the outcome is bound to be an upsurge of the type of dissent that appeared to be dying...
...proceedings have been repeatedly-and often mindlessly-disrupted by young radicals. They have also been marked by one pessimistic report after another on man's despoliation of his home planet. Last week in Washington, D.C., at the A.A.A.S.'S 139th meeting, scientists were again subjected to dissent and despair, but this time there was also welcome relief in the form of an eloquent defense of prudent technological growth...
...reaches westward to conclude agreements on commerce and cooperation with the U.S. and Europe, the Kremlin has seemed increasingly anxious to prevent détente from penetrating Soviet borders. Since Richard Nixon's visit to Moscow last May, the screws have been clamped ever tighter on expressions of dissent in Russia. Now some Western observers think that the Soviets are poised on the brink of the most massive crackdown since Stalin's death...