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Word: authoritarianism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least five times last fall Prime Minister Constantine Caramanlis moved out of his official residence onto a yacht that was never anchored in the same harbor for more than one night. It was suspected that plotters out to restore another right-wing dictatorship were trying to kill him. Authoritarian regimes are no proof against violence. Political terrorists in Spain dynamited a car carrying Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco in 1973, killing him, and only painstaking security has permitted General Francisco Franco to reach his 82nd year. Franco always rides in bulletproof cars along unannounced routes at top speed. During...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABROAD: THE TASK IS EASIER | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...disappointment in him is that as the new face in the American labor movement, he adheres to the status quo. He is not innovative in terms of reform." Shanker is not enthusiastic about busing, and he has opposed affirmative-action programs that impose racial or ethnic quotas. "Quotas are authoritarian and essentially discriminatory," he says. "Why not just confer an M.A. at birth on blacks and minorities?" On the other hand, he takes pride in the some 10,000 blacks and Hispanics whom he has brought into the U.F.T. as para-professionals with the opportunity of eventually becoming full-fledged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Albert Shanker: 'Power Is Good' | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...that the Vatican favors. They tend to be pastoral leaders, "holy men with intelligence," as one bishop puts it, who get out among the people−such men as Santa Fe's Robert Sanchez, 41, the first Mexican-American archbishop in the U.S.. The more remote and authoritarian administrators of past decades are a gradually vanishing breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Man from the Vatican | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...growing power of Mujib's special security force, the 25,000-man Rakkhi Bahini. They may have been alarmed by reports that Mujib was planning to put the armed forces under control of the ruling Awami League party. They were also displeased by Mujib's increasingly authoritarian tactics, the rising corruption within his government and his inability to cope with the crushing problems of Bangladesh, a destitute and overcrowded country the size of Wisconsin that has a population of 75 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANGLADESH: After the Massacre | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

...bishops elsewhere, in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, were becoming more approachable, Cody seemed to many priests to grow ever more remote and authoritarian. He did, however, accomplish a good deal. He rejuvenated the Catholic Charities program, established a pension fund and medical insurance for priests and lay employees, and created a Priests' Senate to consult with him. But as one of its members complained last week, "What is the purpose of consultation if the cardinal chooses to ignore everything that is recommended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Cardinal Besieged | 8/11/1975 | See Source »

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