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...aspect of Soviet life that remains the same is the government's attitude toward intellectual dissent, equated with disloyalty. The Jewish question festers, though a clamp on immigration to Israel that was in force when I left two years ago has since been eased. Some Jews, like the outstanding poet, Joseph Brodsky, are being pressured by officials to go to Israel, although they prefer to remain in Russia. Still, there are glimmerings. The controversial film Andrei Rublyov, based on the life of the 15th century monk who founded a new school of icon painting, was recently released after...
...From Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 platform you sense that the political process had gotten away from the people while the Populists captured the contemporary economic dissent," she said. In contrast, Kearns said, the platforms of the 1960's exuded a basic confidence in the existing political system...
...case. Last week in the Supreme Court, they won a significant Constitutional victory. In a 7-0 decision, the court upheld a 1971 Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that the state's compulsory-education law violated the Amish right to religious freedom. Justice William O. Douglas filed a partial dissent because two of the three children had not been consulted for their own views...
...national hero, Inönü was probably the only Turkish politician with enough stature to apply a moderating pressure on the generals, who may now be tempted to take an even greater role in the country's internal affairs in order to crack down on leftist dissent...
...other 10% could include kooks, would-be Presidents, Nixon-hating politicians, commentators and columnists, domestic Reds and others who have sabotaged the war effort for years and still have a right to freedom of speech and press." The Daily News came close to demanding an end to all dissent, but the nation's press showed no signs of muting the debate...