Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resist a sly dig at America's unchecked oil consumption, chiding "people who often ask for absurd solutions that require no discipline...
...crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg statement that "Crimes against international law are committed by men, not abstract entities" would therefore open legions of scientists, bureaucrats and others to prosecution. The more practical converse of his view is that citizens who withhold taxes, trespass on reactor sites or otherwise resist nuclear power are entitled to present juries with the reasons for their civil disobedience--a line of defense judges disallow...
...realize our peaceful actions may provoke violent reactions on the part of the authorities. They are defending their private property, their investment. They are acting to uphold the law. But human life comes before property rights. If they use violence, we will not retaliate, but we will collectively resist arrest or removal by all possible nonviolent means. We give each occupier a six-hour training session before the action to inform him or her of all possible means of intimidation, crowd dispersal and legal action that may be used against us. The police are not our enemies. Nuclear power threatens...
...member Parliament from 28 to 20 and the elimination of the blocking mechanism, under which whites can veto constitutional changes for the next ten years. Smith, the leader of the country's 220,000 minority whites and a man who as Prime Minister had once vowed to resist majority rule "for a thousand years," found himself isolated even among his fellow white delegates. They reluctantly consented to the terms of the British proposal...
Despite all the polls that show Kennedy the overwhelming favorite for the Democratic nomination, the question of family opposition had long been considered a major obstacle to his candidacy. It was said that Rose, fearing for his safety, would resist letting her only surviving son run the risk of assassination. Another report was that Joan, who has been living in Boston apart from her husband and has undergone treatment for alcoholism, might strenuously object to any new public attention being forced on their relationship. Kennedy, however, attended his wife's 43rd birthday party in Hyannis Port on Labor...