Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to criticism of Frankfurter, the account produced dissent from black civil rights lawyers, who say that it seriously underplayed their role in the case. Elman says he is "shocked" by the current commotion. Frankfurter "didn't regard me as a lawyer for any party," he told his Columbia interviewer. "I was still his law clerk." Indeed, the childless Frankfurter was renowned for treating former students and law clerks as an extended family, finding them influential jobs in Washington and turning to them as a sounding board for his thoughts...
...return, she would face torture because her brother is a former Sandinista who was imprisoned and tortured by his onetime comrades before he escaped to the U.S. Justice Stevens upheld a lower-court ruling that the INS must reconsider her case using the more lenient standard. In a dissent joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Byron White, Lewis Powell maintained it was reasonable for the INS to find no practical distinction between a "clear probability" and "well-founded fear...
...candidate perceived as least likely to brook internal dissent is Manuel Bartlett Diaz. After successfully coordinating De la Madrid's presidential campaign, he was designated Secretary of the Interior. In that capacity, Bartlett, 51, had responsibility for overseeing the elections in Chihuahua, which many Mexicans believe were fraudulent. The third hopeful, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Minister of Planning and Budget, is credited with great intelligence and thought to be the most likely of the contenders to favor party reform. But Salinas has some deficits. He is young, only 39. And he has a reputation for dishing out criticism...
...very repressiveness of the Chun government gives radicals a rich soil to thrive in. South Korean students fill a political void that does not exist in some other East Asian countries. Japan, for example, permits dissent and has a vocal opposition that includes the Communist Party, which holds 27 seats in the national parliament, or Diet. But Koreans have no such democratic outlets. Kim Dae Jung, the country's most famous dissident, is barred from all political activity, and has been under frequent house arrest since returning from U.S. exile in 1985. Even left-wing books and pamphlets are officially...
...student leader at Seoul National University. "But we do not know how the government will react to these new tactics. They may be even more brutal, and then things will escalate once again. I can't tell how it will develop." Given South Korea's tradition of student dissent, the protesters seem likely to remain in the streets...