Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Political dissent, long forbidden in the Soviet Union, is being openly expressed not only by students and intellectuals but also by such pillars of the regime as scientists and even nuclear submariners...
Professional or not, whoever succeeds Brezhnev as the Soviet Union's first among equals may find himself confronting some of the problems that will preoccupy the present Congress. Open dissent, a new phenomenon in the Soviet Union, is one of them. It involves only a relatively tiny number of people, leaving the vast majority of Soviet citizens untouched, but the identity of the protesters is significant. They include not only famed artists like Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich but also scientists such as Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet H-bomb, Physicist Pyotr Kapitsa and Geneticist...
...past, any vestige of dissent was ruthlessly rooted out. But the present regime has chosen to invoke only selective terror against its critics. Some have been jailed or incarcerated in mental institutions. But others who continue to speak out or sign petitions remain free. Last week, for example, Sakharov sent a telegram to the Soviet Minister of the Interior in protest against the handling of two Soviet dissenters who are being subjected to drug treatment in a Soviet mental hospital to "cure"' them of their political abnormalities...
Recent incidents, and the possibility of new ones, make it important to reassert these principles, the violation or erosion of which would undermine the rights of all of us. The right of individuals or groups to dissent and to express their views, which the Faculty explicitly reaffirmed two years ago, cannot be protected and preserved if anyone claims the right to prevent others, however unpopular, from being heard...
Munro should step down as coach. Some have criticized his knowledge of the game, but that is a secondary issue when personal feelings are being considered. On the question of relations with players, the overwhelming evidence of team dissent indicates his failure. To be coach requires two attributes: an ability to be close to the players, and an ability to create leadership and guidance...