Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (RRR). Much of the problem with the CRR stems from the fact that the RRR is vague enough to allow students to be prosecuted for their political beliefs CRR opponents wrongly claim that the committee's preconceived purpose is to stifle political dissent. This is factually incorrect in two respects...
...rights of members of the University are not fundamentally different from those of other members of society. The University, however, has a special autonomy and reasoned dissent plays a particularly vital par its existence. All members of the University have the right to press for action on matters of concern by an appropriate means. The University must affirm, assure, and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate, and publicize opinion by print, sign, and voice...
...report on advising, which the council passed without dissent, endorses the expansion of a program that lets upperclassmen advise freshman on academics and Harvard life...
Against this preponderance of pessimism, Carter closes the book by suggesting that, because of their common biblical dissent and their obvious desire for peace, the peoples of the Middle East can live together without the threat of violence among and between adherents of the three major faiths. But during the last two millennia this common heritage has proved too weak a tourniquet to stop the blood of Abraham from flowing. Carter offers little reason to believe that times have changed...
Underlying Nixon's rationale is a fervent if hard-to-prove belief that virtually all the revolutionaries in South Viet Nam were agents of North Viet Nam. He rejects the idea that there was any significant homegrown dissent, any genuine civil war. Yet some of the evidence he adduces indicates the opposite: the fact that North Viet Nam imprisoned erstwhile South Vietnamese guerrillas suggests that these dissidents were viewed as dangerous nationalists. In justifying his claim that he "won the war" but that Congress lacked the will to honor its commitments and so "lost the peace," Nixon contends that...