Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Algiers movie theater before submitting it to the Deputies. Asked Abbas: "Why should we agree to a constitution that has been prostituted in a cinema?" Abbas conceded that Ben Bella's regime is not going Communist but warned that "we do seem to be heading toward a fascist dictatorship...
...minor, three-day civil war cost 2,000 lives. The economy seemed near death and the flight of French settlers - out of 1,000,000 only about 100,000 remained - deprived the country of nearly all doctors, civil servants, teachers and technicians. Most observers expected either a harsh military dictatorship or total anarchy. Though Ben Bella is a dictator, he has so far managed to avoid both extremes and rules not so much as a doctrinaire socialist, which he once seemed to be, but as a pragmatic politician...
Brazil's 100,000-man army likes to think of itself as the "great mute," strong in power, silent in politics. Unlike many Latin American armed forces, it has yet to foist a military dictatorship on the country. In a century and a half, it has overthrown a Portuguese king, two Brazilian emperors, a president, a dictator, and even a would-be military strongman. But every coup, the brass likes to boast, was a direct translation of the popular will. True to tradition, the army today is an all-too-faithful reflection of the nation-divided, discontented and quarrelsome...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). The first half treats the skill of getting off to a good start in a speech; the second has a quick look at the dictatorship in Paraguay...
Despite all misgivings, the U.S. still stands behind Diem for a simple reason that he himself spelled out in a blunt warning last week: "For a moment, imagine that another government replaces this one: it could not help resulting in civil war and dreadful dictatorship." Washington has considered alternatives to Diem, but fears that the confusion of a coup could only benefit the Viet Cong and might end up with a regime no better than the present one. Thus U.S. Ambassador Frederick Nolting, who is soon to be replaced by Henry Cabot Lodge, returned to Saigon from Washington consultations last...