Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greek demonstrators left unpleasant echoes. Those behind the riots, wrote the Daily Mirror, "are not merely leading woolly-minded undergraduates in woolly-minded peace protests; they are providing a shield for mischievous Communist agitation." The paper noted that "Greece is about the only country in eastern Europe free from dictatorship," then posed a question that self-advertised idealists have yet to answer: When was the last time they demonstrated in behalf of the political prisoners of Lithuania or Estonia or Latvia or Poland or Hungary or Rumania or Bulgaria or East Germany or Czechoslovakia...
...flying wedge of burly conservative "secretaries" smashed through, carrying the aging, anemia-weakened chairman in with them. As the vote was hurriedly taken, Socialists screamed "Fascist dictatorship!" and charged. In the melee, Chairman Nagayama disappeared, was rescued ten minutes later by Diet guards who found him bruised and bleeding on the floor. He was rushed to a hospital...
...Santo Domingo, Cellist Pablo Casals, 86-whose Ministry of State is music-resumed diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic, conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at a festival concert before an overflow crowd in the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Under the Trujillo dictatorship, said Casals, such a visit would have been impossible, but "I am proud to come to this country that has obtained its liberty." Leading a tumultuous final ovation were Dominican President Juan Bosch, 53, and Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz Marín, 65, who arranged the appearance as a "spiritual gift" to the Dominican...
...Charleroi, the Walloon banners screamed "No to a Flemish dictatorship!" An orator in Flanders shouted, "We reject all further compromises!" The angry shouts over much of Belgium last week were the latest outbursts in the ancient hostility between the nation's 5,250,000 Flemings in the north who speak a language related to Dutch, and the 4,000,000 French-speaking Walloons in the south. Since Belgium seceded from The Netherlands 133 years ago, the numerically superior Flemings have always resented the traditional economic and social superiority of the Walloons. "We're the only country in Europe...
...Cuba, the HYRC said that "the Administration must repudiate its guarantee to the Castro dictatorship against attempts to restore the freedom of Cuba. Cuba must not be allowed to remain a privileged sanctuary for Communist activities against hemispheric peace and security...