Word: despots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Canon Law. Ieronymos' effort to pack the Synod provoked a counterattack. Bishop Ambrosios, Metropolitan of Eleutheroupolis, called Ieronymos a despot; the Primate thereupon suspended Ambrosios for three days. "You are violating canon law, Your Beatitude!" cried Ambrosios. "You are afraid of the light, Your Beatitude...
Uganda's President Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin has established himself before the world as an ignorant, cruel and megalomaniacal despot. Last week, as his pronouncements grew wilder and wilder, East Africans were beginning to wonder whether Amin was not merely out of his depth in the job, but out of his mind as well. Items...
...United States is losing the war, and that unless the barbarity continues indefinitely and America is able to destroy the entire fabric of Vietnamese society, the liberation forces will be successful. He says only that they are Communists, and that the United States will not "sell out" its despot or "abandon" its prisoners. He says only that the United States must emerge with honor. He has said it so often that the words are beginning to take on a life of their...
...power, he lived in fear of his life, behind heavily guarded walls-calling himself Osagyefo (Redeemer). From 1966 until he died last week of cancer at age 62, in a Bucharest sanitarium where he had gone for treatment, Nkrumah had lived in exile, still regarded at home as part despot, part national hero. Above all, he was the prototypical African nationalist and the first leader of a British colony to win independence for his country after World...
Sheik Karume was a cruel, erratic but folksy despot. His rule was characterized by conspiracy trials, summary executions of his political opponents, and Byzantine factional fights within the ruling Revolutionary Council...