Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behind his opinions. Concedes Law Professor Charles Ares of the University of Arizona, once Douglas' clerk: "His impatience with dressing up his opinions with careful arguments will probably cause Douglas not to be ranked right at the top by the experts." For almost 37 years -first mostly in dissent, then as part of the Warren Court majority, finally in dissent once more-he etched a record that above all marked him as the most doctrinaire and committed civil libertarian ever to sit on the court...
Most of the criticism focused on the summary dismissal of Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, an iconoclastic intellectual who says what he thinks ?often in a prickly way. Was the reason for the firing his strong dissent from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's brand of détente? Or was it that Ford considered him overly acerbic, abrasive, aggressive? The answer, it seemed, was a combination of both, with the personal motive outweighing the policy problem. A President is certainly entitled to fire advisers with whom he cannot work. But a self-assured President should also be tolerant...
Protecting Dissent. Last week Kissinger reiterated to Pike's panel that he was not suppressing any embarrassing information, but trying to maintain State Department morale and efficiency. At issue was a memo written by a desk officer criticizing U.S. policy in Cyprus. Kissinger argued persuasively that lower-level policy recommendations should not be turned over to Congress with the names of the authors attached. Reason: State Department staffers might then hedge their recommendations for fear that they could be dragged before Congress to justify them-as happened in the Joe McCarthy era. Kissinger again offered to supply summaries...
...virtue still come from church and synagogue. If today there is some backlash against grand-scale attempts by religious leaders to tie sacred texts to particular social policies-as often occurred during the demonstrations and churchly pronouncements in the battle for civil rights and during Viet Nam War dissent-in thousands of local situations religious people are putting their faith to work. In this way, they and their nonreligious allies may be regaining confidence for larger moral ventures by starting close to home, serving the aged, the hooked, the alienated, the lonely. While they might not be satisfied or happy...
Communist countries. Yet from their very beginnings, the Eastern European regimes made a practice of coldly liquidating their opponents on charges of "terrorism"-usually fabricated. Even today these regimes hold political executions on occasion (almost never an¬ nounced), while the most peaceful forms of ideological, religious and national dissent are still punished by long terms at hard labor. The most compelling example: the Ukrainian nationalists in the Soviet Union. Unlike the Basque separatists in Spain, they call for nothing more radical than the wider use of the Ukrainian language in schools and other forms of cultural autonomy for their...