Word: authoritarianism
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...loser, with 36% of the ballot, was the Grenada United Labor Party, led by Sir Eric Gairy, 62, the country's first Prime Minister after independence in 1974 and an eccentric, authoritarian figure whose unsavory political history made his possible comeback a cause of much concern in Washington. G.U.L.P. won the remaining parliamentary seat, but then rejected it, alleging electoral fraud. Gairy offered a novel theory to buttress his charges of cheating. According to him, the ballots had been treated with a special chemical that was able to change votes to favor the winners. "Science and technology today...
...authoritarian governments: "A repressive regime suits the traveler better than the anarchy which preceded it, so long as his documents are in order...
...somehow, India avoided both a descent into chaos and an authoritarian military backlash, fates so tragically familiar to observers of underdeveloped nations. In managing to stick to a moderate middle path, India remains the "miracle" of the Third World and the largest democracy in history. The Indian Army deserves the largest share of credit for this unique situation...
...supporting the authoritarian government of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines because "the alternative . . . is a large Communist movement to take over." In fact, Marcos' strongest opposition comes from many nonCommunists, including Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila. Reagan's assertion that the Marcos government has done "things . . . that do not look good to us from the standpoint, right now, of democratic rights," was, to put it charitably, an understatement. A few days after the debate, the majority of a Philippine inquiry commission charged that some of Marcos' military commanders, including his close friend...
...between the two F.D.R. people [Ungo and Zamora] and ourselves. Zamora said, "There is no democratic election unless there is an absolute democracy." I said to him, "This is a totalitarian concept. You want everything now." They would not accept, for example, even the bureaucracy. They were thinking totally authoritarian. I said I didn't agree with that. I believed that we are in a process, so I said, "The case is comparing whether there have been changes between 1979 and today. You are not accepting this, and this is your mistake." They said they were not asking...