Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recently Gaddafi has had to contend with increasing opposition to his regime among Libyans studying and working abroad, including several of his former cabinet ministers. In response to such dissent, according to officials of several governments, Libyan "death squads" have murdered Gaddafi foes in Rome, Athens and London. Gaddafi's agents have been accused of masterminding the attempted assassination last October of Faisal Zagallai, 35, a Libyan student living in Colorado. Eugene Tafoya, a former U.S. Green Beret, has been charged with the shooting, which he denies. At home Gaddafi has little trouble stifling potential opposition, mostly by retaining...
...That dissent, ordered by the White House and based on concern that the code would restrict free speech and free trade, touched off a wave of outrage, much of it in the U.S. Dr. Stephen Joseph, the top health official at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and Eugene Babb, the agency's top nutrition expert, resigned their jobs in protest. Joseph called the vote "contrary to the best interests of my country, inexplicable to my professional colleagues . . . and damaging to the health and growth of the world's children." Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts convened...
...record and disclose anything that might be construed as a bribe. The FBI and CIA were restricted, especially with respect to wiretaps. The only move toward greater secrecy was a restriction on Government access to taxpayer records, because President Nixon had used IRS audits and prosecutions to punish dissent...
...salutations violated the religious principles of some schoolchildren. But four years later, they reversed their decision. Frankfurter was furious. "One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution," he began his emotional dissent. Even so, Frankfurter scolded, a Justice's "duty" is to submerge his personal views while passing judgment. But fellow Justices perceived an other obligation: to protect certain individual rights, like free speech and due process, from the dominance of the majority. Frankfurter, once the great civil libertarian, resisted the court...
Curtailing dissent...