Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tall, hawk-nosed Senator said he would work for slum redevelopment, tighter regulation of the U.S.-owned copper mines, more diversified industry, land reform -but all within a pro-West, democratic framework. "There is no need to regiment the life of the nation under the iron fist of dictatorship," he said last week. "Much less do we need an ideology that is deeply split between Moscow and Peking...
...guaranteeing any political party five congressional seats for every 2½% of the popular vote it gets, whether its candidates win or not. Last week the new 210-member Congress which López Mateos addressed included 35 opposition members elected under the new law. "Order without freedom is dictatorship," said López Mateos, "just as freedom without order is anarchy...
...pawns of all these groups were the students, who poured into the streets denouncing dictatorship and demanding democracy, heedless of the fact that Viet Nam is in the midst of a bitter war, and that even history's most advanced countries have usually found it necessary to suspend democracy in wartime. Furthermore, many students feared that Khanh, with complete power, might end their traditional draft exemptions. Communist agents were plainly instigating and exploiting the situation. Some of the mobs moved in military formations, signaling one another by blowing whistles and beating drums...
...calling a national convention that would be "entrusted with the task of electing a provisional leader for the nation." As for the junta, it announced modestly: "The armed forces will return to their purely military mission of protecting the nation and fighting Communism, neutralism, colonialism and all forms of dictatorship and betrayal...
Whether the guerrillas pose a serious threat to Papa Doc's dictatorship remains to be seen. But his nerves are starting to show. His internal military radio in Port-au-Prince has been heard exhorting militiamen in the field to capture "just one-just one prisoner." The militia commander replied that he could not even get a clear view of the guerrillas, much less catch one. Duvalier claims that the rebels are Communists from Cuba, has asked the U.S. to run reconnaissance flights over the Windward Passage. The U.S. found no evidence of any Cuban invasion effort...