Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political reforms of 1977 allowed more dissent than in any other Mexican election. Six parties besides the P.R.I, ran presidential candidates, and a total of 100 seats in the country's 400-member Chamber of Deputies were set aside for the opposition. Two weeks ago, some 40,000 supporters of the Unified Socialist Party of Mexico, a left-wing conglomerate that includes Mexico's Communist Party, jammed the huge Zocalo square in front of Mexico City's presidential National Palace...
...henchmen out of office, restored international business confidence in Mexico with pro-business rhetoric and a pledge of conservative fiscal policies, and promised the Mexican people an administration of "abundance." Lopez Portillo aimed to create millions of jobs, open up the country's political system to limited dissent and establish Mexico as a spokesman for Latin American and even Third World views. Said he: "We must not allow the magnitude of our problems to frighten us, nor to shake our determination...
...dissent, Chief Justice Warren Burger hammered away on a major theme of the current high court: deference to legislators. While conceding that the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law applies even to those illegally in the country (a seeming paradox to many laymen), Burger accused the majority of misusing that safeguard. "The Constitution," he said, "does not provide a cure for every social ill, nor does it vest judges with a mandate to try to remedy every social problem...
...moral contaminations associated with the war in Viet Nam. Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus was president of the University of Wisconsin's Stevens Point campus at the height of Watergate. "In the early seventies," he remembers, "we had a group on cam pus weaned on the milk of dissent, convinced that the system had been subverted. Watergate was what turned them around. It proved to us all how incredibly strong our system...
...high and unpredictable are the social and ecological costs that an environmental debate has broken out in the Soviet Union. Ignoring the strictures against public dissent, an increasingly vocal group of Soviet climatologists, historians and distinguished citizens have joined local protesters-to say nothing of worried scientists abroad-in strong criticism of the scheme. The argument has even reached the staid columns of the influential weekly Literary Gazette, where one economist, uncharacteristically outspoken for a Soviet official, argued that it would be economically disastrous to tamper with nature on such a grandiose scale...