Word: dictatorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Pakistan the constitution is gone, the Parliament dissolved, the country's first elections indefinitely postponed. But not since the days of Founding Father Mohammed Ali Jinnah has Pakistan had so popular a government. "On the day De-fore the revolution last October," said a now jobless politician, "I...
Behind Charles de Gaulle's decision to grant Ely such sweeping authority lay one of the great continuing struggles of France's Fifth Republic. When De Gaulle took office last June, some of his critics, disregarding the record of his previous self-restraint in power, freely predicted that...
Amid the confusion, the Cabinet did its best to get a few things done. It drew up a plan to replace Batista's corrupt lottery with a lottery-bond program designed to help finance a $100 million housing project.* Last week, an accounting of the Cuban treasury's...
In Havana the Urrutia-Miró Cardona team labored in all-night Cabinet meetings to cope with a wave of strikes. Dictator Fulgencio Batista kept Cuba's unions close-reined, and they stuck with him to the end. Now freed from restraint and wooed by Communists and Castro, they...
A wife and mother in her youth, Cousin Julia switched to male attire and a career as a political goon for Dictator Jorge Ubico (1931-44). To terrorize the opposition, she backed her broad fist with a muscled 240 Lbs. on a 6-ft. frame. In 1957, when Ydí...