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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resolution, however, drew a distinction between threatening to break the law and actually breaking it. In fact, the Republicans upheld the "We Won't Go' announcement as a legitimate expression of dissent...

Author: By W. BRUCE Springer, | Title: Republicans Caution, but Uphold 'We Won't Go' Draft Resisters | 4/20/1967 | See Source »

Clearly, the civil rights movement will continue to stagnate if it remains a one-issue pressure group. It must now try to encourage Negroes to dissent--in a politically viable manner--from a policy which may commit too many of America's resources to Vietnam indefinitely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. King and Vietnam | 4/15/1967 | See Source »

...Government cannot use the draft to stifle dissent by critics of the U.S. war effort in Viet Nam, a U.S. appeals court recently ruled. But the critics have certainly not stopped using the draft to dramatize their dissent. Last week Pacifist David J. Miller, 24, not only used the draft, he used a court as well to stage one of the weirdest dissents of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Disobedience: The Show Goes On | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...Richard Peterson of the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J., delivered a paper in San Juan on "Student Attitudes and Activism in the United States." The following short excerpt from his paper deals with the types of student dissent in the United States. --editor's note...

Author: By Richard Peterson, | Title: Hippies Are The Most Radical Dissenters | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

Unique & Flexible. The opinion was glumly received. Justice Abe Fortas, in an unusually strong dissent, praised the merger as "unique," applauded the ICC for "flexibility" in its approach to Eastern railroad problems, and criticized his colleagues for "a reversion to the days of judicial negation of governmental action in the economic sphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: The Penn Central: Sidetracked Again | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

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