Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also said he feared that this refusal to pay Ziegler could set a precedent of not paying speakers whose views caused dissent within the student body...
...main social base--that was why forced-draft urbanization was such an effective strategy. Though military tactics were the only ones by which a Saigon government primarily representing South Vietnam's landlords and small business class could hope to dominate the country, it seemed as though the American antiwar dissent evoked by Vietnamese resistance might have forced the main pillar of any Saigon attack out from under...
...preceding ten weeks had been chief of state, head of government and Defense Minister. Known as the "Desert Lion" because of his successful campaigns against the Somalis during the border fighting of the early 1960s, Aman had taken a conciliatory approach to such issues as student dissent, the fate of the detained ex-Ministers, and above all the problems faced by his home province of Eritrea, which has been torn by secessionist guerrilla violence ever since Ethiopia annexed...
...church torn by internal dissent, Bernardin is not as easily identified with either church wing as were his two predecessors, Detroit's John Cardinal Dearden, a favorite of liberals, and Philadelphia's John Cardinal Krol, a respected conservative. Theologically moderate but socially progressive, Bernardin is perhaps best known as a healer-a conciliator who is engagingly willing to hear all sides of an argument...
...back-door price increase should above all remind consuming nations that high oil bills are a fact for the present, and should fortify their conservation efforts. Still, as consumers harken to Secretary Kissinger's contention that the cartel can be weakened through conservation and cooperation, the new dissent in the OPEC tent could be a faintly heartening omen...