Word: despotisms
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...military rule seemed too good to be true, and in the end it was. A government-appointed commission has set aside the results of national elections in the face of legal challenges over alleged voting irregularities. The challenges come mostly from close allies of General Ibrahim Babangida, the military despot who was supposed to yield power later in the summer...
...illusion of power to enact their goals. In an article published last Friday on our club, however, it is The Crimson and others who have tried to create this false illusion, not myself, while I am some-what amused by this paper's attempt to portray me as the Despot of the Democrats, the record needs to be cleared...
During the republic's campaign for independence, the erstwhile friend of Mikhail Gorbachev was branded a "top Kremlin agent." But in the wake of ousting dissident turned despot Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January, Tbilisi leaders took a more benign view of the onetime Georgian Communist Party boss and last week appointed him to chair the new State Council, effectively giving Shevardnadze stewardship of his mountainous homeland. The veteran diplomat now faces pressing tasks: staving off economic collapse, healing the divisions created by months of civil strife and ending the isolation into which Georgia was pushed during Gamsakhurdia's flirtation with dictatorship...
...evidence since the fighting stopped suggests that Americans would have endorsed Bush's policy even if the President had shared his more pessimistic forecasts about the war's results. To most, turning back aggression and preventing a despot from getting a stranglehold on a vital oil supply were sufficient reasons for the use of American force...
...battlefield has always been a fruitful scouting ground for kingmakers. George Washington was eager to retire after his years as a soldier, but there were some who urged him to become a military despot, if not an absolute monarch. Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, rode into the White House with two bullets in his body and a white scar across his face. When South Carolina tried to annul new federal tariffs, Jackson sent soldiers to Charleston harbor and muttered about marching south with 50,000 men. William Henry Harrison was the hero of Tippecanoe; Ulysses Grant served under...