Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the returns were in and the left had lost, the accusations began to fly in earnest, and not merely over how the party had blown the election. Critics were angrier still over the autocratic attitude of their leaders at a time when the winds of democratic expression and dissent were blowing through the more liberal and independent Communist parties in Italy and Spain. When a party stalwart at one cell meeting in Paris started to pin the election disaster on the Socialists, a disbelieving listener suddenly rose to declare: "It is scandalous that comrades cannot express themselves here." That...
...dissent, Justices Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens argued that the court had used the Presidential Recordings Act to frustrate the law's own purpose. Congress clearly intended, Marshall wrote, to ensure the American people "full access to all facts about the Watergate affair." Added Stevens: "For this court now to rely on the act as a basis for reversing the trial judge's considered judgment is ironic, to put it mildly...
Most NATO admirals and generals back the neutron bomb because of its advantages over existing tactical warheads, but their civilian leaders have reacted more coolly, and some military men also voice dissent. British Admiral of the Fleet Sir Peter Hill-Norton dismisses the neutron bomb as "sexy for the media [but] a new dimension of warfare that we do not want to go into." The Dutch are attempting to keep the bomb out of the NATO arsenal and Christian Democratic Leader Willem Aantjes declared last week that the false report of Carter's decision was "extremely good news" because...
When Arnold Miller, 54, rode the wave of miners' dissent into power, he promised to democratize the union. That he did-the expired contract was the first ever to be voted on by the membership. "In the old days," says a West Virginia district leader, "a contract was sent down and the membership just went back to work. Now you have all this freedom...
...brand new crime called solicitation--are too vague. These laws could conceivably be used to prosecute or harass people who participate in political activities in opposition to government policies. The provisions in question go beyond what is needed to maintain democratic order and cut into political rights of dissent previously taken for granted...