Word: dissenter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-equipped military loyal to the Shah would also be helpful in putting down any dissident uprising within Iran. The Emperor freely admits that opposition to the monarchy is not tolerated in Iran, and he has methodically repressed dissent. His principal instrument for maintaining internal security, as he sees it, is SAVAK, Iran's feared secret police organization which routinely scrutinizes even job applications and requests for exit visas. Its name is an acronym from the Farsi words Sazeman Ettelaat va Amniat Keshvar (Security and Information Organization). The Shah himself insists that SAVAK is not large, and some Western...
While reflecting a deeply felt concern, Townsend's very public dissent from what is, after all, an essentially voluntary anti-inflation program could only help weaken confidence in it among both businessmen and consumers. And that could only complicate the Administration's difficulties in successfully treading the fine line between inflation and recession...
...tell me about it." In the case of the CIA in Chile, Mr. Ford came out of the closet and told us about it, and we are all embarrassed. Our embarrassment is compounded by his insulting our intelligence by saying the U.S. was only interested in preserving democratic dissent in Chile. Washington has been notably restrained in its passion for democratic dissent in South Korea and South Viet Nam, not to mention the present police state in Chile. By covering up the unconscionable with the implausible, Messrs. Ford and Kissinger have again pulled us toward the mire of political mendacity...
...were to suppress Griffith's movie or ideas, they couldn't. It's silly to identify their action with official strong-arm tactics, or with other potentially dangerous attempts at dictatorial rule, because the contexts of the attempts are too different. Governments can mobilize enormous institutional force to repress dissent. Saturday night's protesters had comparatively minuscule power--although it may have seemed great for the moment, and they should have taken that into account in planning a disciplined and clearly nonviolent obstruction. And what power they had was directed at a generally prevailing orthodoxy...
BESIDES BEING an uncalled-for personal slight, President Bok's decision not to name Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, to the advisory board of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research is representative of an unreasonable and small-minded attitude toward dissent in the University. Because he balked at policies formulated by the administration, Guinier has been removed from a decision-making process that he should be an integral part of because of his role as Afro's only tenured professor...