Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this was a prelude to a weekend of climactic demonstrations. On Saturday some 700,000 West Germans massed in four cities-Bonn, Hamburg, Stuttgart and West Berlin-in an act of dissent they hoped would mark a turning point in their nation's history. On that same day in London, upwards of 200,000 Britons marched through the streets to a rally in Hyde Park. In Vienna, Stockholm, Rome, Paris, Dublin, Helsinki, Brussels and Madrid, as well as in dozens of towns and cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, the worldwide peace movement stretched its legs and shouted...
...government has exploited that enthusiasm by invoking the threat of the CIA-backed contras. The Sandinistas began cracking down on dissent shortly after their 1979 takeover, and to impose a tough "emergency law" in March 1982 they seized upon an incident in which contras blew up two bridges near the Honduran border. Among the law's provisions: prior censorship and detention without due process. As the contra attacks have continued, the Sandinistas have successfully appealed to nationalist sentiment while using the external menace as an excuse for not fulfilling earlier promises. Says Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra...
Summers: Where I would dissent is from the view that we ought to think about the auto industry as a problem. The example that I like to use is that the federal government has dozens of policies which affect the viability of the press: tax policies, policies regulating job conditions in newspapers, financial policies. It would be a terrible idea, it seems to me, for the government to sit down and make a decision about how large the press should be, what kind of a press we wanted to have, how much diversity we wanted to have in the press...
...addition, by giving aid to the families of political prisoners, the organization helps remove a deterrent to dissent. "There is no welfare for the relatives of Criminals in South Africa." Gomes explains, "So families are punished along with the prisoner which is the ultimate form of intimidation. We negate to some extent that intimidation through financial assistance...
...effect of these actions is to permit civil disobedience within the apartheid studying in this area. "The burden of dissent would be impossible to bear alone," he adds...