Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their early years, the younger generation remain firmly tied to the family. In the 15-25-year-old age group, 73% believe youths should live with their parents, even while another 20% favor guided democracy on the Gaullist model. Only a trifling 1% to 4% are still inclined towards dictatorship...
...favorable deals to investors; on the other, he railed that Campos had throttled Brazil's development by imposing an unduly harsh austerity. "Instability, insecurity and disorder have been succeeded by depression, perplexity, gloom and unemployment," said Lacerda. And he added: "The price of the depression will be either dictatorship or the return of those we threw...
...Revolution in any country is a matter for that country to deal with," said the President. "It becomes a matter calling for hemispheric action only-repeat, only-when the subject is the establishment of a Communistic dictatorship. We support no single man or any single group of men in the Dominican Republic. Our goal in keeping the principles of the American system is to help prevent another Communist state in this hemisphere, and we would like to do this without bloodshed or without large-scale fighting...
...because of Washington's interest in an isthmian canal, Roosevelt signed treaties with Cuba and Panama providing for U.S intervention to protect the fledgling republics' independence. But T.R.'s successors also invoked the corollary. In 1909 when Nicaragua erupted in chaos under the corrupt anti-American dictatorship of Jose Santos Zelaya, President Taft sent in troops, who occupied the Central American republic almost continually until...
Balancing Act. Many of the experts doubt that Kosygin, a somewhat shy and aloof technician on the fringes of the party milieu, has the personality-or perhaps the ambition-to take charge alone. But as one observer puts it, "Russia is a dictatorship without a dictator now," and the feeling persists that the team system cannot work indefinitely. The old conflicts between the metal-eaters and the goulash-givers surely remain, and the military is hardly likely to be ecstatic over the shorter shrift it seems to be getting these days. But such power struggles as may be taking place...