Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Says a foreign ministry official: "We know we're the most powerful country in Western Europe. But we must bend over backward not to use that power." In fact, the terrorist activity is a lefthanded tribute to democratic institutions. A repressive society would not have tolerated the intellectual dissent that led to terrorism...
Those "services" include a necessity to deal with students not as potential lawbreakers but as members of a diverse community that traditionally values dissent, the report says. Consequently, the University police must choose between the "authoritarian" Gorski approach and a policy of "selective enforcement," it adds...
...whiff of dissent clouds a state visit
There is some evidence that one goal of the present crackdown on dissent is to reassure the right-wing verkrampte (narrow-minded) members of Vorster's National Party. To foreigners, the gruff Prime Minister may seem to be nothing more than a formidable reactionary. "He travels in an ox wagon always one length behind the train of history," a ranking British official observed last year. But Vorster is a pragmatist by comparison with many of his Afrikaner colleagues in government and a very shrewd politician as well. Thus, the new constitution could be interpreted as a concession to white moderates...
Herbert's lawyers say they will appeal to the Supreme Court. Unless the ruling is reversed, it could be used by journalists in their attempts to keep a plaintiff from prying into their thoughts during the preparation of a disputed article or broadcast. In a dissent, Judge Thomas Meskill called Herbert's questions legitimate because in order to win a libel case, a public figure like Herbert must prove that a journalist had serious doubts about the accuracy of his report, but published it anyway...