Word: dictatorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In 98% Catholic Colombia, hatred of Protestants-especially the active, evangelistic denominations-has long been cultivated. Ever since 1887, when Roman Catholicism became the country's official religion, Catholics found a lively response to whispering campaigns against the threat of Protestantism. Conservative Party Dictator Gómez was convinced...
Mikoyan's life remained just as closely geared to the dictator's. Britain's former Laborite Secretary for Overseas Trade Harold Wilson recalls that, in tune with Stalin's nocturnal habits, negotiations with Mikoyan "usually began at 10 or midnight and ended at 4 or even...
Even with the 40% increase in pay ordered by the government last year, the workers of Generalissimo Francisco Fran co's Spain remained the most meanly paid in Western Europe (average: $1.60 a day). When price rises quickly wiped out those meager gains, Franco's regime prepared for...
As in other bloody episodes of the anti-Batista war, the Castro men had shown plenty of nerve but little coordination. But by proving he could subvert Batista's well-fed, well-trained military, Castro had punched a worrisome hole in the dictator's armor.
To his 19 papers, Newsman Fred Sparks cabled an open letter to Dictator Mao Tse-tung, plaintively seeking entry: "I am a worker, not a capitalist . . . I am in trouble because of my expense account . . . If I go back home now without completing my assignment to cover Inside Communist China...