Word: authoritarianism
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...dead. His motive was thought to be political: the legislator allegedly told associates that his ambitions to become a state governor had been thwarted by Ruiz Massieu. Munoz Rocha appeared to belong to a group of P.R.I. hacks known as the ``dinosaurs,'' old-timers wedded to the party's authoritarian ways whose power was threatened by Salinas' push for economic and political reforms--a push that both Colosio and Ruiz Massieu had committed themselves to advancing...
...machines will be equipped with CD-ROM drives. ``The U.S. could reach 57% ((home-PC penetration)) by 2003,'' she says, ``and Britain could catch up to that figure by then. Germany may be even higher.'' In Japan, PC penetration is 8.8 per 100 households and growing, while Singapore's authoritarian leadership has vowed to make that country an ``intelligent island...
...banners furled'' and a ``parliament of the world.'' Yet it is really our own century that has turned from enthusiasm for the benefits of science to a kind of techno-pessimism: instead of advancing participatory democracy, early radio and then television actually buoyed the strength of central governments, authoritarian leaders and mass-merchandise hucksters...
...first.'' Government officials, relying on information from a defector known as Subcomandante Daniel, who is being held in a maximum-security prison near Mexico City, insist that the movement is made up of a mere 130 ``professionals'' and 500 militiamen and is being torn by dissension over Marcos' allegedly authoritarian ways. If encircled and forced to hide in the jungle long enough, military planners think, disheartened Zapatistas will give up and negotiate. Maybe, but at week's end there were no negotiations, though the army had clearly dug in for a long stay in previously held rebel villages...
...another setback for U.S.-China relations, a U.S. State Department report claimed that China made no progress on human rights in 1994. The report called China an ``authoritarian'' state and pointedly detailed such abuses as mistreatment of dissidents, denial of fair trials, harassment of journalists and forced labor...