Word: authoritarianism
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...agreement to support the Shah of Iran's request for assistance in developing an institute of science and engineering when approached in 1974 suggests the practical application of that philosophy. He concedes that "there could be little assurance under authoritarian rule" that scientific education "might have eventually served to strengthen freedom and human dignity." Of course, notes Bok, "Subsequent events made it impossible ever to know whether the institute would have served as a force for good or for evil. Years of effort came to nothing beyond a jumble of half-completed buildings near the shores of the Caspian...
...newspaper coverage which aggravates tension and makes Harvard's alcohol policy seem inconsistent and unfair. Put simply: a party which charges for beer and then gets attention for doing so embarrasses the master whose House failed to comply and the other masters as well who suddenly seem unreasonably authoritarian for preventing all-out money making beer bashes...
...vision of Latin America. The Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands and the U.S. vote for a U.N. resolution condemning Argentina's actions indicated that Washington might revise its rose-colored view of Leopolde Galtieri's military dictatorship. Argentina is the exemplar of the Administration's "totalitarian" but not "authoritarian" nation. Though Galtieri's junta never won popular support through open elections, though the government is notorious for its brutal treatment of guiltless political prisoners, and despite the regime's denial of free speech, free press, and open assembly, Reagan has preserved close ties with Buenos Aires. In exchange...
Lekachman, in the weakest passage of his argument, suggests that such a program is possible only under "friendly fascism"--an authoritarian national security state smilingly led by Reagan. Maybe, But it's worth remembering that Felix Rohatyn was most popular in the Carter White House Reagan's ideology has no place for most government-based reindustrialization plans...
...Falkland situation, the United States helped pave the way for Argentina's transgression of accepted codes of international law through its kid-gloves treatment of Argentina's repressive regime, the consequence of the Reagan Administration's fundamentally fallacious distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships. Its vision clouded by its bipolar world view, the Administration tailed to show Argentinas just how seriously it takes violations of human rights or its most recent flouting of diplomatic standards...