Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cent of the electorate turned out to give reactionary Governor Wesley Powell the greatest margin he has ever received, and while the feud between Powell and previously elected Attorney-General Louis Wyman might induce the stalwart investigator to resign, Wyman will probably return to continue his persecution of dissent. And to furnish a further indication that this atmosphere will not change, the Attorney-General's chief target, pacifist Willard Uphaus, failed last week to obtain review of his latest appeal to the Supreme Court...
...there is one campaign issue which must not smother in the post-election Era of Good Feeling. The nation must not forget the systematic deception of the public practiced for eight years by the Eisenhower government. This is one of those evils against which angry dissent is more effective than understanding and tolerance; for the trouble is that Eisenhower is leaving as popular as he came. Unless the press and the public rub the point in, American governments will learn just how easy it is to fool all of the people all of the time...
...articulated dissent embodied itself in a manifesto "On the Right to Refuse Service in the Algerian War," which was issued on September 1. The document signed by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simon de Beauvoir, Andre Breton, Simone Signore and 117 other French artists and intellectuals was essentially a refutation of responsibility for the excesses of the repressive French army. "French militarism, fifteen years after the destruction of Hitlerism, has restored torture," declared the signers. "What is the meaning of good citizenship," they asked, "when it is defined as shameful submission...
...attempted twice to seize power, and Frenchmen must live in constant peril of a third attempt. On the left, the intellectuals and union leaders, both Catholic and Communist are calling for opposition to the government's war effort. In attempting to solidify his power, De Gaulle has unfortunately equated dissent with treason, and this seems desperate and futile...
...probability, saved his country from a fascistic army regime. But the fact that a little repression is preferable to mass repression, does not make it praiseworthy. The corrosion of republican principles is always a disconcerting and menacing specter. It is to be hoped that the present dissent will give rise to a rebirth of French political life...