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...travel to Paris to maintain these contacts during the second half of her year-long sabbatica, which began this week. The main project of her leave of absence will be a book tentatively titled The Problems of Avant Garde Writing. The work is intended to complement her last book Authoritarian Fictions, which analyzed the political and ideological "message" novels against which the avant-gardists are rebelling...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Susan Suleiman | 2/3/1984 | See Source »

...northern neighbor, where U.S. troops will soon be winding up joint exercises that are scheduled to be renewed in July; and a repeal of the existing ban on U.S. aid to foreign police forces. The ban was enacted to prevent the U.S. from underwriting human rights abuses by authoritarian regimes, but it has had the perverse effect of denying security assistance to democratic Costa Rica, which has no army and relies entirely on its police force to keep order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rx: More of Everything | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

Some experts contend that the proliferation of authoritarian governments in Africa represents a stage in the political development of what are still very young nations. "We have to recognize that the constitutions we bequeathed to our former African colonies don't work in some places," says a British official. "It is not a mortal sin for these countries to adapt them to their own particular circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Continent Gone Wrong | 1/16/1984 | See Source »

LETS SAY YOU are a leader of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. After four years of authoritarian rule following the overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza, you recognize that you are losing support among the left-leaning democracies and are wasting valuable resources funding an enormous fighting machine to oppose the U.S. backed counter-revolutionaries operating from Honduras. So you make some significant conciliatory gestures to your critics. For example, you ask more than 2000 Cuban civilians and military advisors to return home, you lift censorship controls on the press; you engage in dialogue with the opposition parties; you plan elections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bad Signals | 12/8/1983 | See Source »

Abbie Hoffman, '60s radical, on an article suggesting Howdy Doody was a subversive show: "I was into Kukla, Fran and Ollie. Howdy Doody was obviously a puppet being controlled by Authoritarian Bob Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 21, 1983 | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

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