Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer project is a much more ambitious venture, involving hundreds of students full-time and other thousands during the weekends. This kind of organizing, though limited in immediate scope, represents a constructive and exciting approach to mobilizing dissent. The students would encourage public discussion by persuading congressmen to hold local hearings, meet with "opinion makers" in the community and provide advice on "alternatives" to the draft...
...create a host of loopholes for fields "in the national interest." The essential inequity of deferments-turned-exemptions could remain unsolved. Part of the problem is that Rivers and other conservatives are exploiting the issue of draft reform for their own purposes. To them, draft reform means jailing dissenters rather than ending the injustices that provoked the dissent. Men who should be involved in refining and writing draft legislation will find themselves defending the right of free speech against what amounts to a diversionary attack...
...Charlie McCarthy. Westmoreland was not urging that dissent be stifled. He was, to be sure, suggesting that some forms of protest might have a demoralizing effect on U.S. troops in Viet Nam and encourage Hanoi to prolong the war. Though that observation may have been politically risky, it was a legitimate expression of concern on the part of the U.S. commander in Viet Nam. Yet, judging from the reaction, he might just as well have called for a suspension of the Bill of Rights...
...Georgia's Senator Richard Russell complained: "You can't please some people. If the President brings the general home to report on the war, that's propaganda in their minds. If he doesn't bring him home, there's a credibility gap." Said Humphrey: "Dissent must be responsible, and we must have the equal right to state our position...
Indeed, there were signs of a strong reaction against the irresponsible brand of dissent that scarred Humphrey's recent European tour. This week's Harris poll shows that the Vice President, who trailed Bobby Kennedy in November's popularity samplings by a 61-to-39 margin, has now edged ahead of him, 51 to 49. One of the chief reasons, speculates Pollster Lou Harris, is that the egg-tossing, paint-splattering European Vietniks who dogged Hubert won him a considerable sympathy vote back home...