Word: authoritarianism
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...weapons sealed off a 2-sq.-mi. area of shops, theaters and office buildings. Puzzled laborers on their way home from work looked on as angry students and union members materialized, taunting the military with their ritual battle cry, "He is going to fall!"--a reference to Chile's authoritarian leader, General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. But then paramilitary police lobbed tear gas into the crowd, and within two hours police had carted off 121 demonstrators in vans...
...suicide was perhaps the most macabre episode in a week of violent demonstrations against the authoritarian government of President Chun Doo Hwan. The protests have been inflamed in part by Washington's steadfast support of the Chun regime. On Wednesday 21 students broke into the offices of the U.S. Information Service and the American consulate in the seaport city of Pusan. Staff members escaped through a back door as angry protesters rampaged through the building. After an hour, they were driven out by 100 riot police...
...most fundamental issue before Aquino is how to undertake a thoroughgoing purge of Marcos' corrupt legacy without seeming authoritarian. On the local level, for example, the new government has already removed 71 of the 74 governors and 52 of the 60 city mayors who belong to Marcos' party. But in discharging them so peremptorily, the President has sparked complaints that she is indulging a Marcos-like self-interest. "I thought she was going to be a nonpartisan President," grumbles Richard Gordon, the dynamic young mayor of Olangapo, who was replaced by an Aquino appointee. "But it's still personality politics...
...members who are out there are just pointing a finger. How many students would be willing to throw their IBM PC's and Kodak film out the window?" asked Jeffrey S. Bartel '88, a member of the Republican Club. "You are protesting authoritarianism by authoritarian rules," he added...
...going to feel the pressure. In the nearly five years Bhutto remained in the country following her father's execution, Zia responded to her challenges by simply throwing her in jail or placing her under house arrest. This time the President is clearly trying to avoid resorting to such authoritarian measures. "I will rule this country from my grave," predicted the charismatic Zulfikar Ali Bhutto before going to the gallows. Last week, at least, his daughter seemed determined to prove him right...