Word: authoritarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...among the first made by the new Carter Administration. Had he been proposed later, there is some question as to whether Sullivan would have been approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Liberals on the committee had reservations about his role in Viet Nam and his reputation for favoring authoritarian regimes...
They fear that when Americans encounter the inevitable difficulties of dealing and trading with what is still an authoritarian regime, their exuberance could soon change to disillusionment. More fundamentally, top diplomats feel that Americans should remember the fact that Washington's most critical relationship in world politics is not with essentially backward and poverty-ridden China but with the powerful and menacing Soviet Union...
...telling indictment in the Columbia Review is that in an eleven-month study the authors could find no use of the word dictator to describe the Shah. Though the press did speak of torture and a repressive secret police, it usually labeled the regime as autocratic or authoritarian...
...sure, Egypt threw out the Russians in 1972 and established close ties with Washington. India, in a stunning demonstration of the democratic process two years ago, defeated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, thereby bringing an end to both her authoritarian rule and her Soviet-leaning foreign policy. The Russians lost their special relationship with Somalia, as well as their excellent port at Berbera, because they got too greedy and tried at the same time to reach an accommodation with Somalia's neighbor and ancient enemy, Ethiopia...
Psychiatrist LaGrone's dismal picture of the transient military family [Dec. 11] is grossly distorted. Moving around is for us a way of avoiding the stifling, narrow-minded existence of one town, one state, one country. He suggests that our fathers are authoritarian figures in search of someone to bully. Except for the uniform, the average military family man is shockingly ordinary...