Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DISSENT-OR TREASON? (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Dr. John Blum, chairman of Yale's history department, reviews the anti-Viet Nam-war movement in the U.S. Film clips of demonstrations and talks with the protesters-plus interviews with some decidedly pro-Viet Nam G.I.s in the field to give the other side of the argument...
...were involved in sit-in demonstrations at U.S. Army bases and a smaller number burned their draft cards. Now almost a quarter of the undergraduates have either signed "We Won't Go" pledges or requested the government to institute "conscientious objector" status on the basis of an individual's dissent from a specific...
...dissent has become wide enough for the radicals and the moderates to get together in support of Vietnam Summer, a Cambridge-based project to organize voters against the war. Despite all the enthusiasm which the project has stirred, its objectives thus far are quite unclear. In fact, the group itself will have no "party line"; each participant is free to respond as he wishes to queries on whether the U.S. should withdraw immediately, or whether the President should be opposed in 1968 even if running against a hawkish Republican. On the other hand, radical leaders who will be helping...
...When irrational and biased dissent in the U.S. and elsewhere outside the Communist bloc has reached the distorted proportions that it has, when the free condemn the protectors of the freedom they share, enjoy and abuse, and curse the resisters of totalitarian aggression (and it is irrelevant whether the aggressors are North Vietnamese, South Vietnamese or Eskimos, whether their aggression takes the form of a frontal assault, blitzkrieg, treacherous tactics or the barbarous slaughtering of innocents), and dishonor the noble flag under which millions have been and are being saved from tyranny for the fourth time this century...
...mere-evidence rule in a wide-ranging opinion that kept Bennie Joe Hayden in prison and cheered prosecutors across the country. Speaking for the six-man majority, Justice William J. Brennan held that the Fourth Amendment is primarily aimed at protecting privacy, not property. Over a hot dissent by Justice William O. Douglas,* who predicted police abuse, Brennan suggested that the mere-evidence rule did not protect privacy-and it surely prevented police from using the fruits of a reasonable search. Even so, Brennan warned police to maintain Fourth Amendment standards in the seizure of evidence: "Probable cause must...