Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government in recent months has tried to intimidate the Roman Catholic Church, which has become a center of dissent. Some 80% of Haitians are nominally Catholic, and the clergy has spoken out more since the 1983 visit of Pope John Paul II, who criticized the Duvalier regime and assured the downtrodden population "I am with you." One day after the July referendum, a 78-year-old Belgian-born priest was beaten to death by thugs. Three other priests, including the director of the Catholic-run radio station Radio Soleil, were expelled from the country in July...
...Yale community offered virtually no dissent on Schmidt's selection. And the search committee was deeply pleased with its decision, doubly so at having avoided leaks, which eight years ago revealed Giamatti to be second choice. Although Vance was discreetly mum about alternative candidates this time, it was clear that, as a 19th century yachtsman replied when asked who finished second in the runaway victory by the U.S. in the first America's Cup race, "there is no second...
...prosecutorial cave-in may breathe new vitality into the United Democratic Front, a multiracial coalition of more than 600 community organizations that claims 1.5 million supporters across South Africa. The organization has become the principal voice of dissent against Pretoria's policies of racial separation. Still, the government of State President P.W. Botha last week reminded its opponents it will not tolerate even the most peaceful protest. In Cape Town, some 200 demonstrators gathered on a beachfront carrying lighted candles, singing and chanting. After warning them that the vigil was illegal, police dispersed the crowd with plastic whips...
...Moulton had been led into making statements to a police agent without the presence of his lawyer. So those statements could not be used to convict him of any crime with which he was already charged, although they could serve as evidence to convict him of other crimes. In dissent, Chief Justice Warren Burger complained that the court's decision created a new "right" only for offenders who persisted in criminal activity even while under indictment for other crimes. Said the angry chief: "Nothing whatever in the Constitution or our prior opinions supports this bizarre result...
Students perennially have charged that the Vietnam War-era body, which upholds the faculty's resolution protecting freedoms of speech and movement, is "illegitimate" and is invoked solely to punish political dissent...