Word: authoritarianism
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...authors awkwardly refer to them, steered SDS for four years, eventually fading from prominence when their theories failed to translate into long-term success with projects such as ERAP. A new, non-Jewish psychological type grabbed the reins and evolved into what the authors call the rigid authoritarian rebel": all of the protean's hang-ups, minus his respect for intellectual matters and his adherence to non-violent tactics. Total immersion in anti-war protest became inevitable after the huge U.S. troop deployments of 1965 and intensification of the draft, say Rothman and Lichter, and the New Left became...
...results of the balloting, however, promise to give recurring headaches to Figueiredo and his conservative Social Democratic Party (P.D.S.). In the process of choosing thousands of city councilors, mayors, state assemblymen, federal congressmen, senators and state governors, the voters delivered an unmistakable rebuff to the military-sponsored authoritarian regime. At week's end, results were still trickling in from the balloting exercise, in which voters in Brazil's remote Amazonian hinterlands were forced to travel by truck, airplane or even dugout canoe in order to register their electoral preference...
Lipscomb and many other bishops talk of the need to begin a dialogue on the issue of the morality of nuclear arms. The importance of the pastoral is that it is not an authoritarian fiat, but basically an invitation to lay Catholics, as well as to priests and nuns, to join the bishops in the kind of anguished soul searching that produced the document. It is that openness, that tentative quality of the pastoral, that appeals to Sister Mary Evelyn Jegen of Chicago, national coordinator of Pax Christi. Says...
...determined to combine support for our more authoritarian allies and friends with the effective promotion of human rights within their countries. By inducing them to change their repressive policies, we would be enhancing freedom and democracy and helping to remove the reasons for revolutions that often erupt among those who suffer from persecution. We might therefore accomplish our purposes without replacing a rightist totalitarian regime with a leftist one of the same oppressive character. A human rights effort would also help strengthen our influence among developing nations that were still in the process of choosing their future friends and trading...
...Hong Kong, where the most authoritarian portrait on public display shows the eyes of an anonymous Asian woman commanding citizens not to litter, the rising if still distant threat of reunification has hit like a typhoon. After Thatcher's visit, share prices on Hong Kong's stock market crashed 21% last week, while the Hong Kong dollar dropped by 4½%to U.S. $0.16, a new low. To deepen the gloom, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary, John Bremridge, announced last week that the colony's economy has been faring far worse this year than expected. Real...