Word: autocratic
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...resent Uganda's Milton Obote, who harbors Sudanese rebels. Congo Strongman Joseph Mobutu is no friend of Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, who helped funnel arms to the Simba rebels. Since Tanzania is currently a base for the enemies of Malawi's Premier Kamuzu Banda, the crotchety autocrat stayed away from the Nairobi summit, although he unbent enough to send his Commerce Minister. Of the lot, only Kenyatta and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda were on good terms with all hands...
Ackerman also criticized the use of departmental committees to plan buildings. "Without an autocrat, everyone gets more or less what he wants, and that makes chaos. Someone should retain the authority to represent the General Good...
...grey, gull-studded morning of Dec. 1, 1825, the Azov seaport of Taganrog echoed to the tolling of death bells. Alexander I, conqueror of Napoleon, keystone of the Holy Alliance, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, was dead at 48. With him had passed the hopes of the peasantry for reforms and freedoms that he had long espoused; after him came an era of intermittent repression and misrule that led finally to the Bolshevik Revolution. But had Alexander really died? Last week in Moscow, a Soviet writer once again exhumed a 140-year-old legend that Alexander faked...
When Roy Roberts took over at the Star, it was a case of one corpulent autocrat replacing another. The paper's founder, 300-lb. William Rockhill Nelson, turned to journalism after dabbling in real estate, cotton farming and contracting. Defeats had only stirred Nelson's crusading spirit, and he wasted no time getting his paper embroiled in fights for clean government, clean streets and clean souls. Derided by Kansas City's four other papers, the Star overtook them all, and by World War I had a circulation of 200,000. "Nelson could be mean as hell," says...
...military and diplomatic pied-a-terre. Seemingly, Nasser-style socialism should have little appeal for Bahreinis, who boast the highest literacy rate in the Arab world, ten free, modern hospitals, electricity in 95% of their homes. For all his benevolence, however, the plump, diminutive Sheik is an unabashed autocrat who prefers to rule his 182,000 subjects exactly as his ancestors have since 1783, when they drove out the Persians...