Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More worrisome for Chun is Kim's potential role as a focus for dissent. Only a few days before his arrival, an estimated 50,000 people attended a political rally in downtown Seoul. Afterward, 1,000 protesters marched through the streets chanting, "Down with the dictatorship...
Almost ninety years ago, Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote a prophetic dissent to the Supreme Court decision in Plessy V. Ferguson, upholding state-imposed segregation in the United States Harlan condemned mandated segregation as "inconsistent not only with that equality of rights which pertains to citizenship, but with the personal liberty enjoyed by everyone in the United States....The destinies of the races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be placed under the sanction of law." The spirit of Harlan's dissent underlies...
...when President Reagan cuts financial aid to students. We will then have a situation where gay people are barred from one of the few remaining sources of financial aid available from the Federal government. If this is an important source of aid, why do Harvard, and others, accept without dissent the exclusion of gay people from these programs...
...partial dissent, Justice William Brennan warned that White's balancing act "portends a dangerous weakening of the purpose of the Fourth Amendment to protect the privacy and security of our citizens." James Weill, legal director of the Washington-based Children's Defense Fund, claimed that "the court hasn't been sufficiently protective of the unique status of children." Weill believes the court should offset children's vulnerability by giving them added rights and protections...
...surprise was that the Pentagon's position on preparing for the Geneva talks prevailed, so far as is known, without any top-level dissent. The usual procedure would have been to prepare a report for Reagan listing several options for his decision. But just before the New Year holiday, McFarlane flew to Palm Springs, Calif., to present the vacationing President with a twelve- page paper detailing an Administration "consensus." When Reagan met for an hour on New Year's Day with Shultz, McFarlane and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, he approved the paper as a set of instructions. Shultz...