Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judge of the highest tribunal of the land. They have done the very thing prohibited by the Constitution in taking over the function of the legislature. This court, together with the hungry, mad, ruthless, ungodly, power-mad men who would change this Government from a democracy to a totalitarian dictatorship have attempted to crush the people of this state through the excuse of upholding and enforcing an unlawful order that had not become final...
...between his view that the human race is irredeemably wicked and his conviction that he can save it. At one time he was so critical of Communism that Soviet propaganda labeled him "a philosophizing wolf." As late as 1948 he declared that "anything is better than submission" to Communist dictatorship, even advocated dropping nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union if it refused international control of the atom...
...Punta del Este conference into a weary marathon. Patiently, Rusk had listened to the arguments from Mexico, Brazil and the others. Doggedly, he wheedled and compromised for endless days to win the necessary two-thirds majority (14 votes) for the blandest sort of condemnation of Castro's dictatorship. But this time, faced by the tangible menace of Russian missiles, the U.S. decided to act in its own self-defense, and then to ask for hemispheric approval. Latin America's response was a general sigh of relief and a willingness to follow U.S. leadership...
...crisis. The Eisenhower and the Kennedy Administrations closed off, one by one, avenues of conciliation and negotiation with Castro, invested the Cuban revolution with a significance-the wrong significance at that-far beyond its real meaning, and convinced themselves and the entire country that the establishment of a Socialist dictatorship in Cuba constituted a danger which ultimately could be dealt with only by force...
...barracks" of South America. Now Betancourt is struggling to finish his five-year term, hold free elections and see his legal successor take office in February 1964. If he succeeds, it will be another historic first for a nation whose history is riddled with revolt and dictatorship...