Word: authoritarianism
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Italy's police have not proved very effective against terrorism, largely because the various police organizations, especially the 68,000-man national public security force and the 99,000-man paramilitary carabinieri, lack coordination. In a country that is still uneasy about anything that smacks of authoritarian rule, that division was deliberate as a presumed guarantee against potential coups. Disclosures in recent years of political plotting in Italy's two secret services led to a fundamental reorganization of the intelligence agencies, which some officials charge has in turn handicapped them in the war against terrorism...
...past hundred years. It is not an innovative or deliberately spectacular structure, as the still debated Centre Beaubourg in Paris turned out to be. Down to the last miter in its warm Tennessee marble cladding, the East Building is intended to be an authoritative, if not exactly authoritarian, statement: balanced, lucid, reflecting the inherently conservative nature of the National Gallery's self-image. The East Building and its concourse (which together cover 604,000 sq. ft.) will be somewhat larger than the older building (522,500 sq. ft.). The new structure may be the most expensive public building...
...leaders of the Patriotic Front. Nkomo, a shrewd and experienced politician, favors a negotiated settlement and open elections because he thinks he has a chance of winning the presidency of an independent Zimbabwe, the African name for Rhodesia. Mugabe, the ideologue, is more committed to violent takeover and authoritarian rule thereafter. Unlike Nkomo, who has a base of political support among the Matabele tribesmen of southwestern Rhodesia, Mugabe is not widely popular at home and can only lose from an election. But if negotiations collapse and the fighting increases, Mugabe would probably be the chief beneficiary...
...civil service jobs to people on suspicion of radical activities, smack of McCarthyism. "It's simplistic to say there is an underlying trend toward fascism," says Gerald Grünwald, professor of criminal procedure at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn, "but there is a tendency toward an authoritarian state and a limitation of freedom." Notes Margret Möller, legal adviser to the Christian Democratic Union, whose conservative members push for even more stringent restrictions: "Nonsense, these people, the terrorists and their lawyers, don't believe in our system of justice. That's the deeper issue...
...after World War II. Moreover, there are in France dogmatic patterns of thought that are part of our national heritage and that are apparent on the right as well as on the left. Finally, there is within the intelligentsia, despite its declarations to the contrary, a certain inclination toward authoritarian forms of government, in one direction as well as the other...