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...While dissent and appeal to America's principles of fair play is called defeatism and even treachery, getting out of the war through the expedient of Vietnamization just because the United States forces are now clearly not winning is generously called patriotism. We who are excluded from the presidential embrace as unpatriotic are going to find ourselves tested all the more perilously as the tragic dilemma of our nation unfolds...
...timetable he had hoped to beat-former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford's estimate that 100,000 men could be pulled out by no later than the end of 1969. But in Nixon's view, the move served a more important purpose. It helped to mute domestic dissent, making it more difficult for leaders of the slipping antiwar movement to sustain interest in their drive for a faster U.S. disengagement...
...opening of the trial of the Chicago Eight, a courtroom extravaganza that may shrink the limits of political dissent...
...long sweep of U.S. history, it is dissent-from the Whiskey Rebellion and the Civil War to the women's suffrage movement-and not conformity that has characterized most decades. The Depression, World War II and the cold war were all shattering crises that temporarily created a spirit of national consensus and obscured the tensions within the society. "Now," says Sociologist Daniel Bell, "the historic tendency of the culture is reasserting itself." Adds Susan Sontag, the radical critic and novelist: "It is a kind of false nostalgia to look upon consensus as being normative." For much of the next...
...time in Siberia, charged with writing "patently anti-Soviet" literature. He has not hesitated to criticize other Russian writers, notably Defector Anatoly Kuznetsov (TIME, Dec. 5). His forte is a particularly acute and abrasive sort of political commentary, and it places him somewhat apart from the mainstream of Soviet dissent, which has always been long on anguish but short on social analysis. Amalric's piece appears this week in Survey, a London quarterly on Soviet affairs, and is to be published in the U.S. next March by Harper & Row. It is entitled "Will the U.S.S.R. Survive Until 1984?" Amalric...