Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration winds back to the New and Fair Deal days of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Those years yielded in time a national unity on matters of foreign commitments and domestic crises that knit President and populace in almost runproof harmony. Though it is frayed today by dissent over Viet Nam, Johnson would like nothing better than to reknit the cloth of American purpose. Last week he seized an opportunity to do so. To succeed Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense, the President chose Clark McAdams Clifford, 61, a veteran Washington lawyer and presidential confidant who is both loyal...
Clergymen have long been among the leaders of protest against the Viet Nam war, but in recent weeks the clerical dissent has become increasingly bold and bitter. Support for Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Viet Nam has grown steadily in the past year, and this winter a number of hitherto uncommitted publications-including the Roman Catholic Critic-have come out with declarations against the war. "It is now clear that the war can no longer be considered merely a political issue," said The Critic. "Rather, it is a moral question which American citizens as individuals must resolve for themselves...
Graffiti & Sabotage. With the gradual rise in frustration, Castro's government has split into activist and conservative factions-but neither seems to know how to get anything done. Even the university, which Castro has always courted, has seen a rise in dissent. Last summer, 40 professors, students and minor party officials at the University of Havana were arrested for disagreeing with party policy. The rank-and-file Cubans are much subtler in their opposition. Some scribble graffiti on restroom walls ("Down With Russian Imperialism," "Fidel, Traitor"). Others indulge in a little spur-of-the-moment sabotage. Sailors or railroad...
...classified by virtue of his membership; anti-war demonstrators at the University of Michigan have been re-classified; and the list could go on and can be expected to grow. Many guidelines have been thrown overboard by the SSS in its concern to "unify" the nation by squashing dissent...
...young man computes the cost of the Vietnam war, to see if Camus' relative order of importance of means and ends is indeed reasonable, he must calculate as sacrificed much more than American dead, South and North Vietnamese dead, billions spent for destruction, and the dissipated energy of dissent. To find the real sum, a young man must also compute the cost for a few decades to come--the cost of decades provided with men who were forced to learn to approach the world in terms of the past, rather than in terms of the future...