Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haig's patience was further strained when Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger assailed Begin's lack of "moderation," a more reproachful view than that of the State Department. So when Haig learned that one of his own ambassadors, Robert Neumann in Saudi Arabia, had joined the chorus of dissent, he decided to make his own feelings very plain...
Although the abrasive Sanjay frequently outraged New Delhi powerbrokers with his highhanded ways, he carried out a serious task for his mother: he kept the volatile Congress Party in line. Since his death, dissent has begun to bubble in party ranks. Rajiv, at least outwardly, seems less adapted to playing pointman for his mother, but he starts his new career with two big advantages: by the corrupt standards of Indian political life, he is Mr. Clean, and Congress Party members will not dare challenge his authority if they want to remain on the good side of Indira Gandhi...
...pledge to address the Soviets' key concerns. While affirming the commitment to the "process of renewal," the committee's final resolution promised a "re-evaluation of journalistic cadres" -signaling a probable purge of journalists -and called for the forces of public order to crack down on open dissent. The resolution also labeled political strikes "inadmissible." On this last point, even Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa was moved to agree, telling workers at a Warsaw auto plant that "we [Solidarity] do not exist to change the government or to engage in political activities." It remains to be seen how aggressively...
...various liberal and humanitarian causes over the years, he became a convert to conservatism and founded his own rightist think tank, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, in 1976. He advocates making a distinction between "authoritarian" governments of the right (for example, South Africa, South Korea, Chile), which repress dissent, and putatively worse "totalitarian" governments of the left (notably the Soviet Union), which deny both political and economic freedom. Lefever had written that human rights questions should not interfere with U.S. alliances. In confirmation hearings he refused to criticize specific human rights violations by allies, and seemed to equate protecting...
Even if they did, the union's highly authoritarian procedures stifle dissent effectively. Still, some 30 reformist delegates, members of a group called Teamsters for a Democratic Union, braved unrelenting hostility from their fellow delegates. They nominated a candidate for president, Peter Camarata, a Detroit dockworker. They proposed the formation of an independent ethics committee, a limitation on the salaries of the top Teamster officials, and re-election of those officials by the entire membership, not merely convention delegates...