Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Book. But businessmen were sharply aware that in the six weeks since Sharpeville, losses on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange totaled $1.3 billion. This economic pressure last week produced the first sign of a major split in the Nationalist Party since it came to power in 1948. The voice of dissent came from near the top-from rumpled Paul O. Sauer, 62, Minister of Lands and leader of the Assembly, who has presided over the Cabinet in place of the wounded Prime Minister. Sauer comes from the Cape area, whose relatively sophisticated businessmen and traders have long wrangled with the intolerant...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Abel's conviction, but in a sharply split (5-4) decision. The four dissenting justices (William Brennan, Hugo Black, William Douglas, Chief Justice Earl Warren) agreed with Abel's court-appointed lawyer that the FBI had no right to use for criminal prosecution the evidence that was seized in the course of Immigration's "administrative" arrest (one not ordered by a court warrant). In his dissent. Justice Brennan charged violation of the spy's Fourth Amendment protections from "unreasonable searches and seizures." But the court majority reviewed each step...
Letters of Protest. At week's end the Post-Dispatch, under the heading, "Dissent to a Story," printed several letters of protest. Example: "If Mr. Prince has paid his 'debt to society,' why then hold up his past to public opprobrium?" But beyond that, the paper was unmoved. "I really don't want to discuss the story," said Editor Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Said Managing Editor Raymond L. Crowley: "I think the stories simply speak for themselves." Indeed they did-but not so much about Frank Prince as about the Post-Dispatch...
Ever since Mao Tse-tung let the "100 flowers bloom and contend" and then rooted them out, the voice of dissent has been hard to hear in Red China. But it was plainly to be seen last week in the pages of New Construction, a nonparty theoretical monthly permitted occasionally to deviate slightly from the party line. The critic was ancient and prestigious Ma Yinchu, president of Peking University. "More than 200 people have criticized my views, and I hear more are entering the battle," wrote Ma defiantly. "I accept the challenge, and even though I am nearly 80 years...
Racial segregation should be continued in the Methodist Church for the foreseeable future, a 70-member Methodist commission reported last week. There was no minority dissent to the report, which was based on four years of study and hearings in 24 cities. Moreover, leaders of the 360,000 Methodist Negroes (out of the 10 miliion total membership) agreed with the decision...