Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, the council has been laying the foundation for a Communist dictatorship. It has decreed the death penalty for "counterrevolutionary" activity, enforces its verdicts with prison terms up to 107 years (to be followed by deportation), and vicious corporal punishment...
...party democracy is often hard to tell from no-party dictatorship in Africa, Somalia is an exuberant exception. Election day brought 1,000,000 Somalis to the polls to choose among 21 political parties, including one fringe group running on the single fervent conviction that the country should import only Fiats, to ease the shortage of auto parts. If the proliferation of parties resembled the nightmare of French politics before De Gaulle, the Somalis' fist-swinging, rock-throwing, vote-early-and-often electioneering style seemed more like vintage Chicago. With African differences...
...libretto lost little of the power of Camus' bitter wisdom: as in the novel, the rats may be real, but the plague is only a shadow of the greater horrors man makes for himself. "The plague," said Conductor Antal Dorati, "is all diseases of the mind, every dictatorship, every war, and there is no real freedom as long as there are pestilences. The rats may come again to the happy city. This is the message...
...United States cannot afford to insist on isolation of all military regimes. A coup in Brazil, for example, could not profitably be opposed for long. But there is a difference between unwilling tolerance and declared acceptance of military dictatorship. If the United States, after 190 years of democratic government cannot distinguish between democracy and dictatorship, Latin American nations can hardly be expected to do so. If they cannot, there is slight hope for the peaceful and democratic change which U.S. policy should hope to foster...
...noted political scientist, whose recent book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report an the Banality of Evil, touched on heated controversy throughout the intellectual world, addressed a Ford Hall Forum audience on "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship...