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...significant dissent came from the director of an agency believed to serve as a front for French espionage. In a Radio Luxembourg interview, Colonel Roger Barberot of the Bureau for Agricultural Production Development speculated that the SDECE had used the heroin-smuggling incident to railroad De Louette. Said Barberot: "My conviction is-and some will tell you so officially -that the operation was mounted by a certain number of SDECE ageats in Paris. De Louette had to be got rid of in the United States. It is the sequel of that operation that is coming...
...Bastion. The key to Krol's style is the big Archdiocese of Philadelphia, which is to the church what Mayor Daley's Chicago is to the Democratic Party: a bastion of strength and discipline in the midst of turmoil. Priestly dissent is rare. The huge parochial school system remains intact, with remarkably low tuitions (after Pennsylvania's grants to private schools were banned by the U.S. Supreme Court, the state legislature voted $47 million a year in "voucher" aid to parents of private school pupils). This fall Krol capped a decade of construction costing $120 million...
...clues that day that something might go wrong, though no one had more than an inkling until it was too late. Frank Church of Idaho, a liberal who had always supported foreign aid, renounced it in an emotional speech. Freshman Senator Lawton Chiles of Florida added his voice of dissent; others, too, joined in. The humiliating diplomatic rebuff suffered by the U.S. only a few days before, when Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese government-in-exile had been chucked out of the U.N. in spite of energetic American lobbying, still rankled. The last Senate speaker was Harry Byrd...
...invite difference but dissent must be distinguished from disruption." Bloustein said. He called the disruption "a form of hooliganism reminiscent of the Nazi hordes...
...Student Council meeting held last Tuesday, approximately 500 students voted to demonstrate non-violently at the dedication. The Council accused Mitchell of "suppressing legitimate dissent and protest," adding that "because of the Attorney General's continued disregard for students and student issues he is not welcomed by the student body...