Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spouting their political and moral reactions to last week's riot, the largest in this city's history; a disturbance of this kind, after all, does rank tops in dinner conversation. But-as the next few months will obviously show-the meaning of this point in the history of dissent against the racist-imperialist policies of our government does not lie in our morning-after responses. The meaning lies in what one saw and felt on the streets around Harvard Square during the four hours of trashing here last week...
...foreign affairs, new fighting in Cambodia threatens an expansion of the war?and at home, dissent about the war is blooming once again with the spring. The Senate last week approved, 72 to 6, a resolution calling for a Soviet-American freeze on deployment of both offensive and defensive strategic nuclear weapons. As the U.S. resumes arms negotiations with the Russians, the Administration wants a free hand in the bargaining rather than backseat driving from Capitol Hill. And as if all this were not bothersome enough, a new Louis Harris poll, taken just before the Carswell rejection, discloses this week...
...subject of this distaff dissent is a controversial marriage-reform bill proposed by the Tanzanian government. Among the East African country's 12.5 million people, Christian monogamy has traditionally existed side by side with Moslem and pagan polygamy. The situation is fraught with inconsistencies and injustices. As Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, a Roman Catholic, explains: "We have always accepted that Moslems can have four wives, and tribalists can have ten or 20. But if I should take a second wife, I could be prosecuted. Yet the police constable who arrested me might be a polygamist. The prosecutor...
...reservoir that finally overflowed. The desperate cries that come in the riot's wake for "rational discourse" become in themselves inflammatory to those who have witnessed the imperviousness of men of power to such discourse. In a very real way, these men have defined the evolution of the dissent that opposes them. The frustration that their deafness to reason engenders is compounded by the frustration of hearing them insist that only reason will work. It is a strong probability that urban riots in college towns across the country will not free Bobby Seale; it is a tested certainty that...
...ANYONE who witnessed the bricks, riot sticks tear gas, and terror of last Wednesday night, the drawbacks of streetfighting as a tactic of dissent are evident. Some of the costs were immediate and obvious: the injuries to bystanders, demonstrators, and police: the destruction of property without a clear purpose: the rising tolerance for violence which such episodes bring...