Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of fanatic soldiers ultra-nationalists. His final plea, "Let us then you would understand," was silenced rude interruption, "No use to talk." time, the Japanese parliamentary steadily deteriorated into an ornamental which simply bestowed approval on the of the Imperial cabinets. Occasionally, , hesitant yet tenacious voices of dissent courageous few made themselves heard. them was Inejiro Asanuma, who was by an eighteen-year old fanatic last...
...torture committed by the French army; conservative intellectuals like Author Francois Mauriac protested the French treatment of rebel prisoners and demanded an end to the war; reservists called to the ranks have on occasion staged sitdown strikes in railroad stations or engaged in brief mutinies. Last week murmurous dissent erupted in the most conspicuous display since Charles de Gaulle took power...
...beet plants by Menderes, now talk openly against Gursel when there are no soldiers around. There is grumbling, too, over the fact that the army is still making occasional arrests for "antirevolutionary activities," a vague charge theoretically punishable by death and thus a powerful damper on the right to dissent...
...Dissenters. Amidst the cheers Hammarskjold's Congo policy has won, there were voices of dissent. In London, Lord Beaverbrook's empire-minded Daily Express complained that U.N. intervention in the Congo "is an act of brigandage and oppression cloaked by sanctimoniousness . . . Every agitator in Africa looks with hope to Dag Hammarskjold." In Paris the right-wing L'Aurore asked: "Do we understand that in the Congo the first objective is to evict the Belgians and the second to re-establish on his cardboard throne this astonishing Lumumba?'' Paris-Jour, echoing the feeling of those Western...
...Cuba's peasants appear to be trustingly behind the new regime, though many in the middle class, which helped bring it to power, have long since become disenchanted. The Roman Catholic Church is stirring in opposition. The press has been silenced, but in the streets much vocal dissent is heard. Eco nomic problems have been postponed, not solved. And some kind of dissension is astir in the ranks of the leadership. Fidel...