Word: dissentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After three years of angry dissent among white intellectuals, students and militant Negroes over the problems of Viet Nam, civil rights and poverty, a reaction is setting in-a dissent to the dissent. It is manifesting itself in scores of ways. In the roar of approval that greeted Richard Nixon's promise at Miami Beach to replace Attorney General Ramsey Clark in order "to restore order and respect for law in this country." In-the bitter resistance to gun-control legislation, evidenced last week when proposals for stronger regulations were hooted down at a meeting of 3,500 Maryland...
Moreover, the convention produced some welcome reforms. The venerable unit rule, often used to smother dissent in party affairs, was summarily scrapped. A standing measure to encourage minority representation at future conventions was strengthened. Rebels challenging the regular delegations from Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi got full or partial satisfaction. Said one disgruntled Georgian: "The white conservative vote in the South is not wanted by the present party leaders...
...acre expanse on the North Side. Critics of the cops pointed out that the site was ideal for the dissidents; it would also have been ideal for the police, who could have left the kids alone and stood guard on the fringes of the park until the soldiers of dissent got bored and left or until the convention was over. It might not have worked out that way, since many of the protesters were fiercely determined to find trouble, but at least the notion offered a better chance of avoiding violence. Had Daley been gifted with either humane imagination...
...people who expressed sympathy for the group were hauled off to the police station. The six arrested demonstrators, who were charged with "group activities in flagrant violation of public order," face up to three years in labor camps. Litvinov, a physicist, and Mrs. Daniel have a long record of dissent, having protested such other Soviet actions as the literary trial last January at which three intellectuals were handed stiff prison sentences for unorthodoxy...
...Jersey, the 3,000 conventioners were an extraordinary crew. The delegates to the Seventh World Congress of the fundamentalist International Council of Christian Churches did not drink, nor did they smoke; they spent most of their time browsing through Scriptures and savoring the special satisfactions of zealous dissent...