Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, Useem said the Administration will probably begin arresting non-registrants who have publicity announced their opposition to the program "There is a historical precedent for use of the draft as a means of opressing dissent," he added...
...same time a significant voice of dissent is emerging in Washington Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass) is sponsoring a bill declaring the certification null and void and requiring Congress to certify that the conditions have been met before military aid can be sent. This bill has over 70 co-sponsors in the House Sen Paul Tsongas (D-Mass) and Rep. Silvio Conte (R-Mass.) have co-sponsored a bill that would institute an official United States policy calling for political negotiations with the involvement of all parties. In addition to these legislative initiatives, members of Congress, including some traditional conservatives...
...dilemma has split the Administration. Weinberger made clear his dissent from the current no-default policy at a dinner with reporters last week. At the next National Security Council meeting, Weinberger in effect apologized for his indiscretion. Reagan, however, made it known that the issue was still open, telling intimates that he was only deferring default "for the moment." Poland has more than $100 million of federally insured payments that are due to U.S. banks in February and March, and $221.3 million more due this year. Although the U.S. has not played its default card, neither has it been discarded...
...interesting to note that while a significant number of your editors in the January 27 issue dissent on the pressing social issue of "free choice" in housing, none has the energy to dissent your editorial on Ronald Reagan, cleverly disguised as a tribute to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Of course, Reagan never attended Harvard (or edited The Crimson), so how can we deify...
...week, and those too proud to beg got nothing. When Hoover said that nobody had starved, FORTUNE magazine used his statement as the title of a bitter dissent: 95 people suffering starvation were admitted to New York City hospitals during 1931, and 20 of them died; 27% of the schoolchildren in Pennsylvania in 1932 were suffering from malnutrition. Roosevelt's first bill for federal relief passed Congress in May ("God save the people of the United States," protested Republican Senator C.L. Beedy of Maine), but the $500 million appropriation had to be disbursed through the states. By nightfall...