Word: authoritarianism
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...victory. Last week he outlined an ambitious program of social security reform, new housing and economic growth for the country, and he insisted to reporters that he is not interested in serving beyond the next eight years. Sources close to him say that he may want to establish an authoritarian but benevolent dictatorship rather like that of Francisco Franco's Spain, without becoming the geriatric embarrassment that Franco was in his last years...
Chun's leadership has proved basically popular in a country long accustomed to authoritarian rule and still reeling from the aftershocks of Park's murder. His puritanical law-and-order approach has included the arrest of some 30,500 alleged gangsters and hooligans and the firing of 8,000 bureaucrats for alleged corruption or inefficiency. At the same time, Chun appeals constantly to Korea's less well-off with populist rhetoric. Says he: "We have to usher in a new era by building a democratic welfare society. Everyone must be satisfied materially as well as spiritually...
...international businessman in the Carter family. TIME has learned that the President's youngest son Jeff, 27, has worked since 1978 as a computer consultant and that his clients, at least one of whom has agreed to pay a six-figure fee, included the World Bank and the authoritarian government of the Philippines...
...when the Organization of African Unity met in the tiny (pop. 4 million) West African state and installed its President, Siaka Stevens, as the O.A.U.'s chairman for the coming year. But when the big bash was over, Sierra Leone was left with more problems than ever: an authoritarian government, a languishing economy, all-pervasive corruption and $200 million in bills from the summit conference. As TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack E. White discovered during a visit to Sierra Leone, the country's plight is disturbingly similar to that of neighboring Liberia, where Stevens' friend and predecessor...
...between black and white in South Africa. If South African whites become frustrated in their efforts to ensure their own political security by means of fair and reasonable offers of accommodation to the other groups, it might give them little option except to ensure their political survival by more authoritarian means. But they would find it hard to live long with authoritarianism in light of the democratic tradition and spirit they possess, at least among themselves...