Word: authoritarianism
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...Trip to Cadiz. Such frank talk has the regime seriously worried, and a few of the more progressive members of Franco's authoritarian regime are anxiously trying to improve labor conditions. The Labor Ministry is preparing a bill to legalize "labor" strikes (as distinct from "political" strikes). Another measure of the regime's concern was the swift settlement of last week's trouble among the vineyard workers of Sanlucar and Jerez. As soon as word of the work stoppage was flashed to Madrid, a Labor Ministry official raced to Cadiz and pressured vineyard employers into bowing...
According to present Air Force doctrine the goal of Leadership Lab is to create an authoritarian environment corresponding to that in which the typical Air Force officer finds himself. The combined experience of drill and staff work is intended to produce an officer who as a subordinate will follow orders promptly and efficiently and who as a superior will issue them with proper forethought, timing and clan...
Though both groups have the same goal of unity, each proposes a separate path. Nasser believes in centralized, authoritarian control. The Baath Party favors "collective leadership" and a democratic parliamentary government. As the talks proceeded, Syria's Deputy Premier Nihad El-Kassem reportedly forced the Baathists in his delegation to accept the Nasserite proposals on a threat of resigning from office...
...Gaulle's reply was in the authoritarian tradition of an angry old soldier. He put his signature to a special decree that has the effect of drafting the strikers into the national service. Such orders can be signed by the Premier; by issuing it himself, De Gaulle put his own prestige on the line against the strikers...
...simple-mindedness about human motives which may yet bring him down. To Bobby the world is black or white. Them and Us. He has none of his brother's human ease; or charity." So far, so bad-and it gets worse. Bobby, says Vidal, would make "a dangerous, authoritarian-minded President." Why should anybody vote for him? "The general public," says Vidal, "can't have too much of their favorite family...