Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout Venezuela, young and old are learning to read, write and do simple mathematics as the result of an intensive education drive by President Romulo Betancourt. When Betancourt took office almost four years ago, Venezuela was emerging from a decade of do-nothing military dictatorship; of the country's 6,500,000 people, 56% were illiterate...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Cuban rebels training in Florida and a look at the military dictatorship in Paraguay...
Once the top cop had been a loyal F.L.N. fighter for Algeria's freedom. Now he was just another enemy of Premier Ahmed ben Bella-a member of the underground Party of the Socialist Revolution, which today accuses Ben Bella of "neocolonialism, personal dictatorship and sabotage of the revolution." Caught with Harraig in the roundup were about 40 fellow ringleaders in the underground party. Government agents also had their eyes on Algiers' Communists, whose organization now was outlawed. Ben Bella hastened to add that he had not banned the Communist Party-or any other group-for ideology alone...
...sided, and warn that even an invasion by 250,000 U.S. troops would not bring about a clear-cut military victory. Shapiro, a 35 year-old man whose wife also teaches at MSU, returned from a visit to Cuba in August, and then referred to Cuba as a Communist dictatorship and a police state...
Besides the need to avoid a nuclear war, an aggressive Communist China is a danger to both countries: to the U.S. in India, where miniaturization might turn "that bright, shining example of democracy on the sub-continent" into a dictatorship; and to Russia in Siberia, "a handsome country" where "Mao-Testing could put 300 million Chinese and still have 300 million left at home...