Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This sharp dissent to the "get big or get out" philosophy comes from, of all people, David Garst, 52, the ruler of a family agribusiness empire big enough to make him a prairie Rockefeller. Based in Coon Rapids, Iowa, the business includes 8,000 acres on which the Garsts raise seed corn and breeding cattle, as well as a grain-elevator and storage operation, machinery manufacturing, the preparation and sale of agricultural chemicals, five banks and an insurance company. The Garst assets, which are divided among David, one brother, three sisters and their children, probably total more than $50 million...
...Dissent in the Soviet Union itself is colored by these factors. In the Baltic provinces, which were formerly independent but which Russia annexed in 1940, the human rights movement has been able to gain a wider base of support because of nationalist sentiment. This is particularly true in Lithuania, where the Catholic Church enjoys an influence in some degree analogous to that of Poland...
...minutes record only rare instances of dissent. On Sept. 12, 1977, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Patricia Harris told Attorney General Griffin Bell that "she had read an early draft of the Bakke brief and that, in her opinion, it needed considerable improvement." But there were no recorded dissents during several meetings last fall when Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall incorrectly calculated that the odds were against a coal strike, or on Nov. 7, 1977, when Treasury Secretary Blumenthal argued that the position of the dollar abroad "is not as bad as it may appear here...
...exceedingly transparent front it was too. The village du livre, a vast tent that is the traditional showcase for Marxist authors' latest books, was barely large enough to contain the hubbub of dissent and debate that has raged through the party since last spring's electoral disaster. The brooding began in April, when Communist Secretary-General Georges Marchais came under widespread attack in party ranks as the cause of the disaster. Critics charged that party leaders' autocratic exercise of "democratic centralism"-the party's code word for unquestioned rule from the top-had provoked the split...
...French were immediately convinced that Marchais's ingratiating turnabout on dissent within the party was a permanent change. Observed Jean-François Revel, perennial critic of the Communists: "Each time that the party steps on the democratic accelerator, it then pushes yet more vigorously on the brake." That helps explain why the Communists are stalled in France's political traffic...