Word: despot
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...Switzerland, fat, sad ex-King Farouk of Egypt, who still cherishes the notion that he was a benign despot, succeeded in looking like a benign father. His three daughters (Ferial, Fadia, Fawzia) are by Farida, his first wife, who in three tries bore him no male heirs. At his knee, Farouk fondly held Prince Ahmed Fuad II, 3, a winsome lad and sole product of his second queen, Narriman Sadek...
...sense, the U.S. had helped touch off the Communist time of troubles by publishing the Khrushchev speech that confessed the violent crimes of the Stalin era (TIME. June11). Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had since reiterated that although Khrushchev damned despotism, the speech clearly revealed Khrushchev as a despot too−and this line has been echoed by bemused Communists throughout the West. "International Communism is in a state of perplexity and at internal odds," said Dulles at his press conference last week, "because certain basic truths have caught up with it . . . This is, above all, a time...
Khrushchev himself is a despot and the speech "the most damning indictment of despotism ever made by a despot...
Under Owner-Editor German Ornes, the Dominican Republic daily El Caribe praised Dictator Rafael Trujillo slavishly, as do all Dominican newspapers. Last week, at a press conference in Manhattan, German Ornes, 36, bitterly labeled Trujillo a "despot" and his regime a "tyranny," accused him of "usurpation, plunder and criminal violence...
Packing a dictator-size revolver in a belly-gun holster, Nicaragua's slang-slinging Despot Anastasio Somoza struck a benign pose as he proudly surveyed one of his pet projects, Port Somoza, now abuilding on Nicaragua's sultry Pacific coast...