Word: authoritarianism
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...relocation, is unauthorized contact with foreigners. Uniformed policemen armed with pistols stand guard over Peking's residential compounds for foreigners to keep unapproved Chinese visitors out. Observes Michel Oksenberg of the University of Michigan: "The previous totalitarian system under the domination of a single dictator is yielding to an authoritarian system with a collective leadership at the top. The instruments of totalitarian control have yet to be dismantled...
...President "has a wide streak of the authoritarian instinct," Sevareid continued, citing the proposal of lie detector tests and censorship agreements for federal employees...
...those older alumni who support the radical students at Harvard and Radcliffe. President Pusey's unreserved support for ROTC following the clear faculty vote against it showed how authoritarian is the administration philosophy...
Jebsen recognizes that the problem in El Salvador is one of "economic and political fairness." Yet somehow he feels that these problems can best be addressed through military solutions. Propping up the current authoritarian regime in El Salvador will only create bloodshed, not fairness...
...Salvador becomes communist or partially democratic. Yet to ignore ideology is to care little for one's own values. The human rights situation in Communist nations is appalling, as it is in many other countries. But no totalitarian regime has ever permitted a change of power, while many authoritarian government have done so--Argentina, Spain, and Greece are prominent examples. A communist El Salvador would never allow true elections; a formerly authoritarian El Salvador is holding them right...