Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...name of "national unity," Balaguer appointed members of Bosch's Dominican Revolutionary Party as his ministers of industry and finance, balancing them off with right-wing appointments to other offices. Support for Bosch's party has so eroded that when Bosch called from Europe for "popular dictatorship" this summer, there was hardly a ripple of response. For their part, the Communists have split into six factions, and are too busy fighting among themselves to declare all-out war on Balaguer...
...white delegates complaisantly approved the statement. "Anyone who does not like it can go to hell," declared James Forman, a director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. A delegate asked: "Is this a dictatorship?" "Yes," snapped Forman, garbed in a white African tunic and flanked by bodyguards. "And I am the dictator...
...EUGENE MOVER Assistant Professor of Economics University of Illinois Urbana Sir: The South Vietnamese are faced with two alternatives, a rightwing oligarchy operating under a facade of democracy, or a rigid but efficient socialist dictatorship which at least perpetrates some social and economic reforms. A very substantial number of impoverished, downtrodden South Vietnamese peasants would seem to prefer the latter, judging by the efficacy of the Viet Cong in battle and in proselytism of the populace...
...Italy's Fiat, world's fourth-ranking automaker and the country's second biggest private industry, a tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) onetime math professor who signed on in 1921 to help Founder Giovanni Agnelli consolidate World War I growth, deftly steered the company through depression, dictatorship and World War II, then, with organizational genius and Marshall Plan cash, embarked on a vast expansion and diversification program that resulted in $1.66 billion in sales last year at his retirement; of a stroke; in Marina di Pietrasanta, Italy...
...first chief executive, a schoolmarmish aristocrat who in 1964 came out of a 16-year retirement following the death of her brother to oppose Mohammed Ayub Khan for the presidency, bitterly but unsuccessfully accusing the military leader of seeking to "scrap the constitution" and set up a dictatorship; of a heart attack; in Karachi...