Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marxist government, the Allende regime had moved relatively slowly toward suppressing free institutions. But the CIA believed it was only a matter of time before all dissent would be muffled. Approximately half the CIA funds were funneled to the opposition press, notably the nation's leading daily El Mercurio; Allende had steered government advertising to the papers supporting him while encouraging newsprint prices to rise high enough to bankrupt the others. Additional CIA funds went to opposition politicians, private businesses and trade unions. "What we were really doing was supporting a civilian resistance movement against an arbitrary government," argues...
...effects of the incident continued to be felt. The police action had converted a minor act of dissent into an embarrassing political incident that was headlined next day in newspapers across the world. Soviet authorities indeed seemed to react to the unfavorable publicity. Though there had been no official word from the government, at week's end one of the artists told foreign newsmen that permission had been granted to hold another exhibit at a different site this week...
...Ford told the group that if it succeeded in finding answers to inflation, "there will be statues of each of you in every city park throughout the U.S." Democrat Walter Heller remarked: "It is refreshing to be in a White House open to a little laughter again, and to dissent...
...Castro's style of governing has changed. He still runs a police state that tolerates no dissent, but he has started to curb the whimsical use of power by institutionalizing government processes. The bureaucracy has greater authority, and instead of ad hoc economic decisions there is now a Five-Year Plan. These changes aim, in part, at improving living standards. Although Cubans now eat better, are healthier and claim the highest literacy rate in Latin America, there are still enormous shortages of all kinds of goods. Only through normalized relations with other nations of the hemisphere can Cuba obtain...
...what Kadushin calls "lunch distance" of New York -a 50-mile limit he considers convenient for day trips to the city. Wherever they live, these intellectuals are well paid (average income: $35,000 a year). They write most frequently in such magazines as Partisan Review, the New Republic, Commentary, Dissent and the New York Review of Books...