Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when we learned that it was true, we learned also that the President of the United States had heard of the murders and said, "When dissent turns to violence, it invites tragedy...
Dismissed Dissents. The sudden anxiety created abroad by the table tennis team's visit was mirrored at home by an unexpected dissenter: Vice President Spiro Agnew. Attending the Republican Governors Conference at Williamsburg last week, Agnew summoned nine reporters to a late-night off-the-record chat and argued that the Administration was moving too fast in welcoming Peking's overtures, which he viewed as an easy propaganda victory for China and one, moreover, that undercut Taiwan. After his views leaked out, Agnew aides denied that there was any disagreement between the Vice President and his boss-though...
THREE YEARS ago, Dr. Benjamin Spock was a defendant in the first conspiracy trial involving protesters against the war. Today he remains gleefully absorbed in urging political dissent...
This time around, he is concentrating on the theme of dissent, he said. "The war in Vietnam was my excuse for dissent," he says, but he stresses the importance of action on many issues. "The first Harvard and Columbia strikes are good examples of how a very small minority can swing a majority to their support.... What is this law and order that the authorities are pulling to their support-what do they mean, telling black people they can't riot?" he asks indignantly...
Spock identified an imperialist foreign policy as the main target of dissent. Although acutely aware of "industrial, military, political and psychological" control exercised over U. S. citizens, he does not base his opinions on a class or even a political analysis, but rather on a sense of moral outrage...