Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of dictatorship in Cuba was the padlock on Havana University, the bodies dumped on street corners by casual police terrorists, the arrogant functionaries gathering fortunes from gambling, prostitution and a leaky public till. In disgust and shame, a nervy band of rural guerrillas, aided by angry Havana professional men (plus opportunists with assorted motives), started a bloody civil war that cost more than $100 million and took 8,000 lives. Last week they smashed General Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship...
...year-old warrior entered the capital just a week from the day his 26th of July movement tumbled the dictatorship of Fulgencia Batista. Word that he was coming spread like wildfire and Havana residents poured into the streets. Castro's headquarters will be at Camp Columbia in a Havana suburb...
...government suspended all criminal courts, regarded as a symbol of the fallen dictatorship of President Fulgencio Batista, and was reported preparing a decree abolishing all political parties...
...Communist current is running through the streets of Baghdad, proving that during the 40 years of British-backed strong-man rule in Iraq the Communists were able to develop and harden the best-organized apparatus in the Middle East. Iraqi Premier Karim Kassem, needing political support for his army dictatorship, has had to call upon the Communists to fight off those who want to merge Iraq into Nasser's one big Arab nation. At this crucial point, a crack is showing in those Arab nationalist forces which were formerly united by the simple desire to expel the West...
...Visitors, by Mary McMinnies. Funny things happen to the diplomatic set in this not-too-fictional Iron Curtain country, with full value wrung out of every absurdity that Western folly and a heavy-handed dictatorship can help to generate...