Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awkwardness of it all, a much publicized event following the appearance of Chomsky's new book has threatened-or better, promised-to bring the end of whatever critical dissent remains about the war. That event, of course, is the announcement of President Nixon's newest so-called "peace" plan, which proposes to resolve the conflict according to how many of the South Vietnamese are "loyal" to "us," and how much territory "they"-the NLF, the North Vietnamese, or whoever-"control." An interesting principle, this, which suggests that the Paris negotiators ought to divvy up the Vietnamese nation according to where...
...Governance Committee, composed of 32 students and faculty members from all parts of the University, two Overseers, the head of the alumni organization, and Francis Burr, senior fellow of the Corporation, is a subcommittee of the Overseers. The recommendations passed "without dissent," according to Dean Dunlop, chairman of the group...
...million command post under the Pentagon parking lot. This so-called Directorate for Civil Disturbance Planning and Operations is a constant riot watch. Despite Army assurances that it has dismantled its computerized file system at Fort Holabird, Md., it still maintains 375 copies of a two-volume encyclopedia on dissent entitled "Counter-Intelligence Research Project," popularly known as the Compendium. This is compiled by the Counter-Intelligence Analysis Division at the Pentagon...
Commenting on the current assumption that students' dissent is a symptom of a decline in their mental health, Farnsworth said, "It might be argued convincingly that the nature of their dissatisfaction connotes a higher than usual level of mental health, particularly in the realm of concern for others...
...their forecasts on a belief that the money supply will grow somewhere around 5% a year. They disagree most sharply not about what is likely to happen but about whether the U.S. could do better. Most argue that the nation could safely pursue somewhat more expansionary policies. In lonely dissent, Beryl Sprinkel replies: "If we say, 'We've got lots of slack, so go, man,' we will wind up a year from now moving toward full employment. But inflation will be rekindled, and we will go down one more time." Thus if inflation resumes, the nation will...