Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently Gofman spoke at the New York no-nukes rally where Musicians United for Safe Energy entertained a crowd of 200,000. Jackson Browne and company will keep the machinery of dissent from running on empty by raising money with benefit concerts. But the members of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility are supplying much of the movement's intellectual firepower. Among them are Lewis Mumford, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and four Nobel Laureates: Linus Pauling; James D. Watson; George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus; and Harold Urey...
...Greek Colonels. The same could be true of Ferdinand Marcos, although democracy in the Philippines has always been fragile and turbulent. Conversely, the U.S. has little choice but to tolerate military rule where it is the norm. For example, South Korea's Park Chung Hee suppresses dissent by an "emergency decree" superficially similar to Marcos' martial law; but different versions of such measures have been the rule in South Korea, while they are a relatively recent exception in the Philippines. Similarly, Thailand for decades has run on a mixture of monarchy, military oligarchy and a mostly rubber-stamp...
...make matters worse, on Monday Smith stirred dissent within the Salisbury delegation by objecting to matters even Muzorewa had agreed to. He called the retention of constitutional safeguards for the 3 per cent white population of Zimbabwe "absolutely vital." It is just those safeguards, of course, which the front-line states of black Africa (Tanzania, Angola, Mozambique, Botswana and Zambia) find objectionable; even Britain, the United States and Muzorewa have conceded that safeguards must be weakened substantially. Many whites from Smith's old Rhodesia Front party also now agree that white safeguards need to be reduced. Smith's comments split...
...stem the flow, Macias ordered all the boats in the country destroyed. When labor shortages appeared on his cocoa plantations, he pressed 20,000 of his countrymen into slavery at gunpoint. Recalled one Guinean: "If you didn't go, you were shot." His approach to dissent was epitomized by the way he dealt with one group of 150 political prisoners: they were lined up in a stadium on Christmas Eve and shot as loudspeakers played the tune, Those Were the Days, My Friend...
...seven-member Corporation-- also known as the President and Fellows of Harvard College--are the legal owners of all of the University, its land, buildings, and investments. The Fellows stay in the background most of the time, and follow Bok's lead. Dissent at this level is a rarity, controversy almost unheard of. The only Corporation member to make a name for himself among students recently is Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), the Corporation front man for the South AFrica controversy...