Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after day they marched, tens of thousands strong, defiant chanting demonstrators surging through the streets of Tehran, a capital unaccustomed to the shouts and echoes of dissent. The subject of their protest was the policies of Iran's supreme ruler, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Some carried signs demanding his ouster. Others called for a return of long denied civil and political liberties and the enforcement of Islamic laws. A few even demanded the legalization of the Tudeh, Iran's outlawed Communist party. The crowd, at times numbering more than 100,000, was a colorful, sometimes incongruous cross section of Iranian...
...Medical School's new director of admissions, Paul was pushing for the elimination of a special minority admissions subcommittee to the full admissions committee; and he was doing so in the face of unanimous opposition from the full committee, ardent lobbying by Third World and minority students, and ruffled dissent from the rest of the Med School faculty...
...only in the sense that he was rash enough to protest the arrest of his friends for political activism. If he will recant and confess his error, he can be released when ever he wants. "Your opinions are your symptoms," explains his doctor (Remak Ramsay). "Your disease is dissent...
...confidence." Kenneth Baker, editor of the conservative Homiletic and Pastoral Review, pleads the opposite: "We need a Pope who overcomes the confusion over what it means to be a Catholic. The seminaries are a shambles. We need clear directives about what the church stands for, clear lines for dissent." Baker and McBrien agree that a middle-of-the-roader will only enhance drift and decline...
...party itself. Says Harvard Law Professor Harold Berman, a 30-year observer of Soviet procedures: "My guess is that there is a conflict between the leaders, perhaps within the KGB itself. Some say they have to be careful with trials. Others say it is too dangerous to let dissent continue...