Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...size, the island of Hispaniola-where Christopher Columbus landed in 1492-can match its violent past and present with just about any place, including Cuba, the island next door. One end of the island of Hispaniola just got rid of the bloody 31-year dictatorship of the Trujillos in 1961. The other end is subjected to the increasingly whimsical violence of Haiti's Dictator François Duvalier...
...cover all of these countries in a single issue; the Review ignores all of them and deals with problems which, instead of being peculiar to the Middle East, are common to many underdeveloped countries--land reform, the motivation of a population indifferent to economic progress, the threat of military dictatorship as a response to the inefficiency and corruption of the civilian government...
...negotiations, was enough for Argentina's navy. Headed by Rear Admiral Jorge Julio Palma. 46. commander of the Puerto Belgrano naval base, a group of officers wanted an end to all talk about elections, argued for the ouster of Guido as President and the establishment of a "benevolent dictatorship" that would attempt to stabilize the economy and "normalize" the political situation. Though his forces were small-25,000 navymen and 17,000 marines, compared with 87,000 men in the army and 22,000 in the air force-Admiral Palma enlisted the support of a clutch of retired army...
...they really care about freedom, they ought to learn of another side to the tragedy of South Vietnam: the plight of those nationalists caught between Diem and the Communists, of men who oppose dictatorship from either Right or Left. There are at least 25,000 of them in his concentration camps and many more in hiding or in exile...
...airlift, obviously, is Mexico. And while the Mexicans may pass on the airport mug shots, stamp passports and occasionally confiscate a load of propaganda, they have done nothing to stop the flights, or to stem the flood of people pouring into the country bound for the Cuban island dictatorship-and bound to make trouble at home...