Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...veritable "enemy of Greek tourism," concluded Greece's ever-watchful military dictatorship when they heard some of the things Actress Melina Mercouri, 41, star of Broadway's Illya Darling, was saying about her homeland-like advising folks not to visit Greece until the soldiers go away. Therefore, Brigadier General Stylianos Patakos solemnly announced in Athens that the regime was stripping Melina of her Greek citizenship and all her property as well. "I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek," snorted Melina. "Patakos was born a fascist and will die a fascist. If he wants...
...contention that the fall of the junta might lead to civil war is partially valid--it might. But to strengthen the present dictatorship with military aid in the name of stability would be morally unjustified and would also lead to a more bitter reaction from the people. The political polarization would be far greater than in 1965, when a large majority of the electorate bitterly opposed the King after he had dismissed Prime Minister George Papandreou...
...editorial mentioned no names, its meaning was clear. "During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, initiated and led by Chairman Mao," it read, "we have overthrown the top party person in authority taking the capitalist road, smashed the counter-revolutionary line he pursued and shattered his scheme to turn the dictatorship of the proletariat into a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie...
Even German high schools are getting into the act, and barely a week goes by without a student outburst. The rallying cry may be Viet Nam, dictatorship in Athens or price hikes at the campus cafeteria. Whatever it is, the excuse for the clamor is of secondary importance. West Germany's students seem determined to mobilize behind any cause that suggests they are carrying the torch of democracy...
...Buddha, Confucius, Moses, Socrates, Plato, Mohammed and Jesus, Eastman plainly still sees himself as an eternal Peck's Bad Boy gleefully provoking shrieks of outrage and accusations of heresy from the Yahoos. Mohammed, for example, was a "neurotic and savagely cruel old man," and Moses established a dictatorship "that for absolute control and bloody-handed cruelty has few rivals in history...