Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...during the past five years, these schools have had to fight as never before to keep even basic work in issues far removed from national security free from the new dissent-quashing mania. Among contracts recently offered to Harvard for unclassified research without rights of immediate publication are "International Comparison of Health Science Policies" for National Institutes of Health and "Study on Changing Economic Conditions of Cities" for Housing and Urban Development...
...Responsibilities--a body assembled contrary to its own regulations requiring student representation, and which failed to fix or try charges at a reasonable time. The irony that Daniel Steiner, Harvard's general counsel, should have observed was that the University was emulating South Africa's repression of political dissent...
...Jewett said he has some reservations about the long-dormant disciplinary body, but he said he does not accept many students' argument that it is an illegitimate body. Students have perennially boycotted the committee since its inception in 1969, charging that it is used to punish political dissent without appeal to a higher body...
...democratic values of free speech and assembly, and it accentuates the anger and frustration felt by all opponents of apartheid. The South African government's contention that it upholds Western values is belied by such actions. A society can never effectively come to terms with its problems by repressing dissent...
...propaganda war. The Kremlin can shape, time and fine-tune a message with precise calibration. The U.S., by contrast, is often a cacophony of voices, all shouting and disagreeing at once. But in the struggle for world opinion, it is that very diversity of viewpoint and freedom of dissent that gives the U.S. its most valuable asset: credibility...