Word: authoritarianism
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...Committee to Stop G. Gordon Liddy, the Brandeis student-faculty coalition that organized the demonstration, distributed leaflets accusing Liddy of espousing Nazi authoritarian ideology. Liddy's daughter, Sally Alexandra, who attended the lecture, called this charge untrue but added. "He liked the idea of the way [the Nazis] attained their power...
Jumbled in with the majority's pseudo-pragmatic arguments is its moralistic complaint against selling arms to authoritarian regimes. According to the majority, Reagan happily sells arms to any right-wing government in whatever quantities it desires. Yet the Administration's refusal to sell advanced F-16s to Taiwan hardly supports this interpretation...
...since Mao Tse-tung's China broke with Moscow in 1960 had the Communist world been rocked by such a bitter and open feud. To Soviet accusations of "slander" and "sacrilege," the Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.) last week responded with charges that the Kremlin was "authoritarian," "erratic" and bent on the "mortification of national sentiments and sovereignty." By week's end many observers believed that a complete break between the two parties might ensue...
SOME VERY INTELLIGENT people spent a great deal of time trying to distinguish between "authoritarian" and "totalitarian" regimes. (FDR '04 once succinctly endorsed a dictator friend: "He may be an S.O.B., but he's our S.O.B.," essentially what these very intelligent people were attempting to intellectualize.) Other very intelligent people spent even more time discoursing on "winnable" nuclear war. The Middle East affords just one specific example of the 1981 tendency toward pointlessness. The United States, friend of democratic Israel, strikes a deal with authoritarian (or was it totalitarian) Saudi Arabia, avowed enemy of Israel, for the largest arms sale...
...vicar" as a diplomat, Washington has not treated him kindly. As most people saw it, he was a brusque, imperious swell-headed general who would never make a good team member, unless of course, he was the star--and coach. After a few comments about "hit lists" and "authoritarian" versus "totalitarian" regimes, he met with a shower of ridicule and abuse. And in the wake of the Reagan shooting, when he seemed to be wearing his presidential aspirations right there on his sleeve--in place of his military stripes--the rage of Washington began to look more and more like...