Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call himself a democratic socialist, but his interest in reasoned argument is a narrow one--confined, in fact, to argument which he agrees with. Singapore has a one-party parliament, which should enable a Prime Minister to liberate responsible dissent outside. Not at all. Free speech has been virtually extinguished by the well-known social democratic device of imprisonment without trial. The Singapore press is in chains...
...wounded by a National Guardsman's bullet in May 1970 and paralyzed for life: "All I could think about is that we are finally out of there. If it had happened five years ago, I might not be sitting here this way today. If nothing else, student dissent and student opinion finally reached the older people, people who run this country...
...students objected to MIT's association with the Iranian government a regime which they believe denies civil liberties and suppresses political dissent...
Thieu's long-range prospects are uncertain. There could easily be a resurgence of dissent, especially if the military situation continues to deteriorate. Any major cutback of American aid would obviously damage his position. But it might also encourage the non-Communist opposition in Saigon to work toward setting up a new government more willing to reach a negotiated settlement of the war. It is difficult to predict what the outcome would be. Certainly, the Communists would be influential in any kind of coalition government that might arise; they may well dominate it. That result would hardly please...
Holmes was often known as "the Great Liberal" and "the Great Dissenter," but, says Chadbourn. "He wasn't that liberal and he didn't dissent all that much." In a series of sedition cases after World War I, Holmes authored the majority opinion which found Americans guilty of collaboration with the enemy. In Abrams et al vs. the United States, however, he relented with a dissenting opinion on the same issue...