Word: authoritarianism
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...real power, would be dominated by the military. Certain to be absent from the Cabinet are the moderates-the Socialists and centrist Popular Democrats, who together polled nearly two-thirds of the vote in last April's Constituent Assembly election. In opposition to the M.F.A.'s recent authoritarian measures, Socialist Party Leader Mário Soares and officials of the Popular Democrats prohibited their party colleagues from participating in the new government. Denouncing the Directory as unconstitutional, Soares called for a broadly representative "government of national salvation," warning last week that "the rhythm of our revolution...
...Communist Boss Cunhal was named Minister Without Portfolio. The Cabinet's ability to act, however, was severely restricted by ideological differences. On one side stood those committed to democratic processes, such as the Socialists; on the other side were those, like the Communists, who were willing to employ authoritarian means to carry out the revolution. While the Cabinet became bogged down in lengthy discussions, a rash of strikes and demonstrations seemed to be bringing the country close to anarchy...
...accumulating legacy of the state of emergency, now in its third week, under which Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has suspended India's fundamental freedoms. Although the country generally seemed to be responding calmly to the emergency, Mrs. Gandhi last week showed no signs of easing her authoritarian rule. Arrests of the regime's opponents and of alleged smugglers and black marketeers continued across the subcontinent. Police seized the leaders of 26 extremist groups that had been previously banned and sealed their offices. Estimates of those detained ranged from 5,000 to 20,000. Internal censorship of information...
...will seem a travesty so long as most of the leaders of the opposition remain jailed. Moreover, with freedom of speech guaranteed on the floor of Parliament, the remaining members of the opposition and perhaps even some Congress Party members may dare to criticize the Prime Minister's authoritarian acts...
...cycle?to which economists have given such cacophonous names as "stagflation," "slumpflation," "infession" and "inflump." Breaking that inflation-recession cycle is rapidly becoming the major problem, not only of capitalism, but of democracy. Inflationary recession is more likely than anything else to make voters turn to an authoritarian fascist or socialist system that would fix price, production and employment levels by fiat, and permit no argument...