Word: dissentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Further Dissent...
...Bettelheim [Sept. 5] blames American parents of college dissenters for being permissive and authoritarian. Hungarian, Czech, French and deprived black American parents too? Dissent is traditional in democratic countries and feared by fascist societies...
Others have chosen to publicize their plans in detail. San Francisco State College President S. I. Hayakawa and San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, for example, have jointly issued specific guidelines covering campus protest. The regulations, says Alioto, boil down to "dissent si, violence no." Violence is defined to include physical blocking of a doorway and occupation of a building as well as throwing bricks and carrying guns. "The city will be prepared to act in advance of possible violence rather than reaction to it," promises Alioto. "We've seen too much of bayonets and buckshot in California...
...last June. That would maintain the sense of momentum in disengagement. If the combat lull had continued, Laird's proposal for perhaps a considerably larger figure would have been easy to justify. Now it was tricky, and he had to calculate the risk on the battlefields, the tolerance of dissent at home, and somehow strike a balance. At week's end the summer White House in San Clemente said that President Nixon would defer his decision on the cutback until he returns to Washington next month...
...distributing "antisocialist" leaflets. Czechoslovakia's Communist Party has issued stern warnings against "provocations." An ominous visitor has arrived in Prague. He is Soviet General Aleksei Epishev, chief political commissar of the Russian army and a member of the Soviet Central Committee, whose job it is to repress political dissent...