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...Rome colleague John Shaw have been so successful in building that mutual trust that TIME was able to report the contents of Pope Paul's encyclical, Humanae Vitae, last July in advance of its official publication. For this week's cover story on the storm of Catholic dissent stirred up by that encyclical, Shaw and Wynn found their sources still available-and even more cautious. Rarely was either man able to conduct an interview across a desk in a Vatican office. Shaw found himself taking soggy notes as he conversed with a theologian in swimming trunks beside...
Lofty en Garde. Yet despite these wide-ranging activities, there are signs that the Komsomol is losing its appeal for many Soviet youth. There is no war and no revolution to chal lenge the present generation, and many young Russians find indoctrination a bore. The growing dissent and dissatisfaction in Russia doubtlessly have infected the Komsomol, along with other elements of Soviet society. Party Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev underlined the leadership's concern when he told Komsomoltsy in his 50th anniversary speech: "Class enemies disguising themselves as the friends of youth strive to draw politically unstable, inexperienced young people...
...Thank you for your superb Essay on the "everyday activist" [Oct. 18]. Finally, someone has pointed out that constructive dissent can and does exist, that for every militant demonstrator there is a "disrupter for good" who contributes far more to our society than do all the yippies from Berkeley to Columbia. Allow me to speak for the doers of my generation with these lines from the Beatles' latest release, Revolution...
Robert Leckie, American war historian, will be guest of honor at Lowell House's second "Ford Dinner" of the year tonight. Leckie will speak in the Lowell Junior Common Room at 8 p.m. on "War and Dissent"; the lecture and ensuring discussion are open...
Listening to former Secretary of State Dean Acheson uphold the Joint Chiefs' call for an invasion, Bobby reacted in a way that foreshadowed his later dissent on the Viet Nam war. "Whatever military reasons he and others could marshal," he recalls, "they were nevertheless, in the last analysis, advocating a surprise attack by a very large nation against a very small one. This, I said, could not be undertaken by the U.S. if we were to maintain our moral position at home and around the globe. Our struggle against Communism throughout the world was far more than physical survival...