Word: dictatorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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I feel that the part of your Oct. 27 article on France which deals with me is both unfair and untrue. It tends to show me as a kind of would-be dictator, as a man who tries, against General de Gaulle himself, to acquire enormous powers by a one...
Ever since Dictator Mustafa Kemal Ataturk overturned and reformed the Islamic rigidities of the Ottoman Empire in 1924, Turkish women by the thousands have come out from behind the veil, taken up short skirts and modern ideas. Polygamy was outlawed. But in Istanbul last week there sounded a still, small...
Elected with the help of Peronista votes, Argentine President Arturo Fron-dizi struggled for six months to convert the ex-dictator's followers to his cause of rebuilding Argentina. Last week, in a Peronista-provoked crisis, he wrathfully turned against them.
In his new role as dictator, Ayub is still no politician; but his willingness to grapple with Pakistan's staggering problems has aroused enthusiasm. A New York Times correspondent notes a new air of "civic virtue" among the rickshaw men, beggars and merchants of Karachi.
In such circumstances, the election was a bitter joke. Of the three leading candidates for President, Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, 71, two-time former President (1933-34, 1944-48), had no chance at all. The only chance for Carlos Marquez Sterling, 59, lawyer and economist, lay in the unlikely...