Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME'S story, concentrating on the Berrigans, obscures the main issue: the law of conspiracy is so broad and vague, the snooping powers of the FBI and the Department of Justice so pervasive and unregulated, that the fundamental right of dissent is in jeopardy. What will be on trial will not be, as TIME concludes, "the facts of the case and ultimately their [the Berrigans'] integrity." At issue will be the right of men to speak out against injustice without being subject to intimidation and persecution...
...their fears, but they're acting too precipitately." Levy's remark drew a fast rebuke from Managing Partner William R. Salomon of Salomon Bros., the bond house and big block trader. "The vote in the special committee was 16 to 4," said Salomon. "If Levy wants to dissent he should resign from the committee. Everyone seems to be forgetting the public interest...
...Tonkin resolution. Whatever the last word from constitutional experts may be on that point, the resolution had become pragmatically moot because U.S. forces are gradually withdrawing anyway. Its role in history may be not only that it further embroiled the U.S. in Viet Nam and raised loud voices of dissent at home, but that it probably marked the last time that the U.S. Congress would ever hand the President such a heady carte blanche with so little care...
...flimsy evidence, perhaps taking protesters' idle speculations with total solemnity? The first could help rekindle the fires of protest that have seemed dimmer lately and also revive lingering fear and hate of radicals. The second could again put in question the Government's responsibility and fairness in dealing with dissent and stir new talk of "repression...
...note of dissent was heard from at least one student. Claire Du Charme '73 said: "I don't like it. I don't think it's right to take a human life." She said she felt that a loan program would lead to a careless attitude toward abortion...