Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simply that the Mounties had operated beyond the law but that they felt free to spy on a legal, democratically constituted political party. "What is happening in this country?" cried anguished New Democratic M.P. Stuart Leggatt. "Th government should try to distinguish be tween subversion and political dissent...
...plain that television, long considered more of a weapon for a President than for his adversaries, is double-edged. Dissent on almost any level ricochets instantly from the far reaches of the nation to the Oval Office. Presidential TV Aide Rick Neustadt says that in the old days a President could make a controversial announcement in the afternoon and know there could be no public answers on television until the next day: to set up cameras and process and edit film took too long to make the evening news. But new technology has made instant response a fact. Carter...
Chairman Hua thus tacitly conceded that he could not guarantee the loyalty of all the 4,000 delegates expected to attend the congress. Despite a vigorous, yearlong purge of opponents of his regime, there is still some resistance?ranging from mute dissent to downright rebellion?on every level of the ruling bureaucracy. Even rank-and-file party members?traditionally the backbone of a Communist state ?are suspect. Analysts note that party membership rose from 21 million to 35 million in the past decade, when the Gang of Four was riding at its highest point. Perhaps as many...
...crackdown on dissent, "come hell or high water...
...little-noticed token of liberalization, the government reversed a decision that would have excluded black and Indian students from the mostly white Natal medical school.) But blacks and their white supporters would still have the memory of a vivid lesson-that the government has the legal authority to crush dissent any time it pleases...