Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thus punishing dissent, the French were following an impulse that, in some form, has seized many Western Communist parties of late. Especially in the larger ones, the hierarchy is reasserting demands for an orthodox, centralized ideology. Open criticism is rarer-and riskier-than it has been for years...
...Compared with the mass purges and even executions in Western parties during Stalin's era, that may be tame stuff. But in an age when the party is striving for respectability and hoping for enough votes to earn a place in a governing coalition, the suppression of internal dissent can hardly help...
...incite" the riots that bloodied Chicago streets during the 1968 Democratic Convention. Appeals may go on for years. However, the grotesque trial went far beyond the question of whether seven assorted radicals actually started the melees. The real issue was the integrity of U.S. law in times of traumatic dissent. The defendants' outrageous antics in court obscured that issue...
...findings of an investigation headed by Lawyer Daniel Walker, then the Mafia-fighting president of Chicago's crime commission. The Walker Report agreed that some demonstrators had provoked the Chicago police. However, its conclusion was that "the vast majority of the demonstrators were intent on expressing their dissent by peaceful means," and that the eruption had in effect been a "police riot." Clark ordered a federal grand jury in Chicago to begin investigating possible federal law violations by overreacting policemen...
...University has a special autonomy, and reasoned dissent plays a particularly vital part in its existence," reads the Resolution...