Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis and calm. Last week Richard Nixon began a new round of intense activity. At summer's end, congressional elections loomed in the middle distance, and for the first time Nixon saw his popularity in opinion polls dip below 50%. Campuses were reopening, bringing uneasy possibilities of violent dissent. The auto strike diluted optimism that the economy was at last beginning to right itself (see BUSINESS). And in the Middle East, earlier hopes for peace were rapidly unraveling. Nixon moved almost simultaneously on all fronts...
During his successful campaign for the Democratic Senate nomination in Minnesota, former Vice President Hubert Humphrey strummed a persistent chord: "There can be no alternative to public safety." Little more than a year ago, Humphrey was speaking of "patriots of dissent, filled with anger and indignation who deserve our thanks, not our rebuke." Party Chairman Lawrence O'Brien, currently on a combined speechmaking, fundraising, strategy-planning tour, rarely fails to stress Democratic devotion to a disciplined, though dissenting society...
...that student demonstrators did not have to be warned that their actions were illegal in order to be prosecuted for them. In a situation where peaceful demonstrations could easily erupt into violence, the effect of this latest ruling was to scare students out of political activity and stifle legitimate dissent...
...Last year saw three major political demonstrations of dissent from the President's war policy. The reaction of Harvard's administration and Faculty to those demonstrations changed radically. That they changed at all was a prime reason that the University did not meet the fate of Kent State or Ohio State. Whether they will continue to change will determine the course of Harvard's future...
...main criticism being levelled against the Moratorium by defenders of U.S. policies in Vietnam is that such public demonstrations of dissent have the effect of encouraging the National Liberation Front and their North Vietnamese allies to wait out the United States in Paris in the hope that public opinion will eventually force a withdrawal of American troops without prior concessions by the Vietnamese. Such criticisms must be troubling for many of the politicians and prominent citizens who have recently jumped on the Moratorium bandwagon, since it is undeniable that the existence of a strong anti-war movement in the United...