Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politics for more than 40 years. He is the heir to ex-Premier Constantine Karamanlis, who was also deplored by the left. The elder Papandreou charged that in choosing Kanellopoulos the King had chosen "the path of wickedness." His party's newspaper warned of the possibility of a dictatorship, and promised that in such a case "the people will mobilize massively to overthrow the regime." At week's end crowds of pro-Papandreou students chanting "Andreas" and antimonarchist slogans clashed with police in Athens and Salonika...
...homes and stores for arms and arrested 130 opposition leaders. Aguero himself ducked into hiding, then at week's end suddenly reappeared to announce that he still intended to run in the election, scheduled for next week. Against the Fabric. Aguero is up against more than a mere dictatorship; the Somozas are part of the country's basic fabric. When General Anastasio Somoza Sr. seized power in 1936 and launched his dynasty, Nicaragua was a typical down-at-the-peels banana republic. Though he dealt ruthlessly with critics, sometimes having them tortured, the general organized a social-security...
...situation but rivets the attention of the reader. Along his tour he notes that a farm in Chile, the beanpole country hugging 2,600 miles of the continent's west coast, can measure as little as ten feet in width and five miles in length. Paraguay, a landlocked dictatorship the size of California, has only 450 miles of paved roads, and in Venezuela, which is three times larger than Italy, the state railroad moves on a total of 220 miles of track. The armchair traveler learns that dueling is still legal in Uruguay, that Bolivian jails do not feed...
Basically they believe in the same things most people do. I don't think they have a militarist vocation. A minority of the military calling themselves, let's say, intellectuals, may try to organize a militarist concept of government. They confuse technocracy and dictatorship and try to introduce technocracy through a military regime, using it as a medium to attain the technocrat's objective...
Though most Brazilian newspapers attacked the constitution as another step toward dictatorship, Castello Branco had no fears about congressional passage. With his proposed draft, he issued "Institutional Act No. 4," which calls Congress into extraordinary session between Dec. 12 and Jan. 24 for "discussion, voting and promulgation" of the new constitution. If Congress votes it down, the act empowers Castello Branco simply to go ahead and decree...