Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When dissent becomes barbaric it is the duty of all men, whether they be rich and powerful or poor, hungry and oppressed, to preserve civilized life and insist upon justice. The people should demonstrate their true fortitude and humanity by refusing to accept any food or money from the People in Need program or any other criminally sponsored operation. Mr. Hearst and the authorities are powerless to stop this crime, but the people...
Economic difficulties as well as renewed threats from North Korea make it impossible for his government to tolerate unlimited dissent from students and intellectuals, he said...
Moral government was part of The Way, but dissent in its absence clearly was not--The Master said, "He who holds no rank in a State does not discuss its policies." To those with modest power, his disciple Tzu-yu added, "In the service of one's prince, repeated scolding can lead only to loss of favor." And in Imperial China, favor was with-drawn with a vengeance--China's greatest historian, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, was castrated for defending a general who had fallen into the disfavor of a Han emperor. Ssu's action had been morally correct...
...fact, the professionals on New Zealand's 119-year-old Brancepeth sheep station were impressed with Prince Charles' ability to fit in wherever he was during an official visit to meet the Kiwis. Although one dissent was recorded - a cry of "Go home, Pom" directed at his mother Queen Elizabeth after the whole family had got together to open the Commonwealth Games - the wel come accorded Charles by local teeny-boppers was more typical of the royals' reception. "Oh, you gorgeous thing!" cried one of the girls, who were out in force wherever he went...
...Soviet press pursued its campaign of vilification against Russian Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn last week, government officials struck out at yet another target: foreign newsmen. The 60 Moscow-based Western correspondents were cautioned about their reporting of Soviet dissent and the raging controversy over Solzhenitsyn's new book, The Gulag Archipelago, an exhaustive study of the Soviet system of terror under Lenin and Stalin. In an article in the Literary Gazette, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Vsevolod Sofinsky warned that foreign correspondents would "create difficulties for themselves" by seeking what Sofinsky called "nonexistent facts and information" about dissenters like Solzhenitsyn. Similar admonitions...