Word: dictatorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The last dictator in South America sat in his ramshackle, century-old Asunción palace, weighed his chances of survival and decided last week that they lay in loosening his iron grip. After five years, poker-playing Lieut. General Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, 46, announced a turn toward democracy.
The 12,000-man army, the regime's backbone, divided three ways. Unqualifiedly loyal to the dictator, whatever his course, were two units: the 1,500-man palace guard and the 900-man Cerro Cora Regiment in Asuncion. But nine miles from Asuncion sat the 2,000-man cavalry...
Following up its conviction of former Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla for abusing power and enriching himself in office (TIME, March 30), the Colombian Senate last week abolished all Rojas' political rights, all his titles and honors. As he signed a document to acknowledge the sentence. Rojas automatically lost his...
The fallen dictator is a source of embarrassment for the U.S. in its relations with the new, democratically elected Venezuelan government, which accuses him of looting and terrorizing the country. The State Department said that it had "conferred" with the Immigration Service on the expulsion order and agreed that it...
The late Ernst Emil Wiechert (1887-1950) was one of the last of a vanished breed of German writers-romantic in feeling, mystical in outlook, spendthrift in prose (in his 63 years he wrote 60 books, none of them very well known in the U.S.). When Hitler came to power...