Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discordant Democrats. "The convention will be short, compact and precise," declared Republican National Committee Chairman Robert Dole. "We want a convention that will be watched-and not just by insomniacs." Everything is under control, observes the wry Dole, including a "spontaneous floor demonstration for Nixon and Agnew." Dissent is muted, polite, served up in small doses. There is no Bella Abzug storming around denouncing the nominee; instead Jill Ruckelshaus, wife of the director of the Environmental Protection Agency, makes a discreet, ladylike case for more lenient abortion laws...
...style of the Old Politics, Mrs. Westwood was confirmed without a whisper of dissent. Then McGovern offered his choice for vice chairman: Pierre Salinger. With that, Charles Evers, the black mayor of Fayette, Miss., challenged the nominee, insisting that former New York State Senator Basil Paterson, a black, be named vice chairman. After an awkward moment, Salinger withdrew his name from consideration, and Paterson was elected. It had been George McGovern's turn to feel the force of the New Politics. The incident may have been a mild caution for the nominee. As James H. Rowe, an old professional from...
...Miami Beach police chief, handsomely named Rocky Pomerance, whose 250-man force will be fortified with reserves of county and state police, along with scores of Secret Service men, FBI agents and Army Intelligence units, promises to keep dissent in reasonably humane control. Flamingo Park, a six-block area near the Miami Beach Convention Hall, has been designated a "free-speech area" for demonstrations. Other protest areas, all bordered by a new $24,000, 6-ft.-high chain-link fence decorated with hibiscus, have been set aside in front of the hall. Youth ombudsmen and housing counselors will...
...various political groups, and it argued that its reasons for doing so are too "complex and subtle" for a judge to evaluate competently. Powell responded sharply: "If the threat is too subtle or complex, one may question whether there is probable cause for surveillance . . . The price of lawful public dissent must not be a dread of subjection to an unchecked surveillance power...
Although a hard core of activists still criticized the continuing death and destruction in Vietnam, Nixon's cosmetic overhaul of the killing process placated dissent and the outrage felt by most students as recently as the May 1970 Cambodia invasion quietly slipped into history. Even the Harvard chapter of SDS, long noted for its opposition to the war, turned inward with its anti-Herrnstein campaign. A November 6 antiwar march drew only 5000 people from the entire Boston area: Harvard students guzzled beer at the Princeton game played on the same...