Word: authoritarianism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Buckley of New York introduced a bill to tie tax liability and the value of Government bonds to movements in price indexes. Most significant, wholesale indexing has been a critical factor in cooling Brazil's scorching inflation rate, which was 88% a year in 1964 when the present authoritarian military government took over. In the first three months of this year, it dropped to an annual rate...
...record, General António de Spínola should be the last man in Portugal to lead a campaign for reform and liberalization. For most of his 64 years he has been a stern authoritarian. The son of a top financial adviser to Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, he was a volunteer fighter on the Franco side in the Spanish Civil War, commanding a detachment of other Portuguese volunteers. A few years later, the Portuguese high command, recognizing his potential, sent him to Nazi Germany for training with the then invincible Wehrmacht. From the German side...
...seventh anniversary of the military coup that overthrew its democracy. This year there was an added fillip, resulting from last November's ouster of George Papadopoulos-the colonel who led the 1967 coup, eliminated the monarchy of King Constantine and became President of Greece-by even sterner, more authoritarian military men. Awkwardly linking the latest coup with the traditional day for celebrating military rule, some banners carried the message APRIL...
...black bull ceremony. In ritual fashion, a black bull would be stolen from the people by the king. This theft, which symbolized the demands of the monarchy, would make the people both "angry" and "proud"--a complex of attitudes expressive of their ambivalence about living in an authoritarian nation...
...care, to the arts. But Heilbroner cannot imagine these things being done voluntarily or without the "payment of a fearful price," particularly in freedom. Democracy, he suspects, is not up to the job, only " 'iron' governments" that are "capable of rallying obedience." Does this mean that an authoritarian state, the worst alternative only a few years ago, has become the best alternative today...