Word: authoritarianism
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...Ambassador to the U.N. Jeane Kirkpatrick [Oct. 31] may be abrasive and supportive of right-wing dictators, but she is honest. She acknowledges that the regimes the U.S. tries to bolster are authoritarian but that these governments are also friendly to the U.S. and necessary to our security. I disagree with Ambassador Kirkpatrick almost 100%, but I respect her for her candidness...
...been in Japan. He assailed the Soviet Union again for the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, pausing for silence in memory of the victims. He denounced the "despicable North Korean attack" that killed 16 South Korean government officials in Rangoon. By inference, Reagan defended the authoritarian nature of the South Korean government as a response to the pressure it is under from North Korea. Said the President: "The United States realizes how difficult political development is when, even as we speak, a shell from the North could destroy this assembly...
...military's periodic withdrawals from power, Alfonsin challenged the aging party war horse, Ricardo Balbin, for the Radical presidential nomination. Alfonsin was intent on proving that voters could be lured away from their rote support of Peronismo. Said he: "It is intolerable that there should be any authoritarian component in a popular movement." He lost, but gained a name for himself in party ranks. When the Radicals held their nominating convention last July following the junta's vow to hold national elections, he was ready...
...thirds of the 2.7 million eligible white voters favored the new constitution, which had been hotly debated among white Nationalists. The approved plan allows for an executive white president with potentially authoritarian powers--he would be able to dissolve Parliament and declare martial law--and a three chamber legislative body composed of whites, Indians and coloreds (those of mixed blood) in separate chambers. Blacks, of course, will still be excluded. Parliament will be dominated by whites through a system of weighted votes that ensures the election of an Afrikaner to the position of authority, giving Afrikaners, who have dominated...
...Major, Celia Jaffe stands out from the crowd with a strong and effective portrayal of the authoritarian. Establishment character. Her commanding, venomous glare is not enough, however, to elicit reaction from Captain Starkey (Jim Torres). His performance as the protagonist tends to fall flat; reciting his lines as quickly as cued. Torres' overeagerness suppresses any natural emotion. Since he fails to carry the cathartic climax, one leaves the dining hall unsatisfied rather than unsettled and meditative...