Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Short Shrift. Soon after De Gaulle went off the air, Parliament assembled in an angry mood. In speech after speech, Deputies warned against the risk of dictatorship, reminding France that direct presidential elections in 1848 resulted in the seizure of power by Bonaparte's nephew, Louis Napoleon. A motion of censure was passed, charging De Gaulle with "violating the constitution of which he is the guardian, and thus opening a breach through which an adventurer might some day pass to overthrow the Republic and suppress liberty...
...years ago Dery was released, when Kadar tried to win the support of the apathetic population by slightly relaxing his dictatorship. Today, under Kadar's slogan "He who is not against us is with us," non-Communist technicians have been given important industrial posts, attacks against the church have slackened, Western newspapers can be bought in Budapest hotel lobbies. But unlike most other Hungarian intellectuals, who tentatively raised soft voices of comment within the limits set down by the regime, Dery cloaked his reaction to the changing times in silence. He published nothing, was inaccessible to visiting Westerners, even...
...officers who called themselves "Democrats." Occupying nearly all the top military positions in the government, the Democrats had one principal characteristic: undying hatred of ex-Dictator Juan Peron and the outlawed, 3,000,000-man Peronista political organization. Their name derives from the form of government they propose-"democratic dictatorship," or direct military rule for a minimum of five years...
...swung their great curved sabers in a fierce ballet. A spare, bearded mullah on the edge of the crowd intoned verses from the Koran. The peasants greeted each statement by Minister of Agrarian Reform Ahmed Abdel Karim with a rhythmic chant: "Down with feudalism! Down with imperialism! Down with dictatorship! Down with Communism! Down with Nasser! Down with Nasser! Down with Nasser!" The mullah shrilled his enthusiastic agreement: "In the name of Allah, chase out the demons...
After a month of huffing and puffing, the U.S. gave up trying to blow Peru's military dictatorship down. The State Department professed itself satisfied that "the interim government has taken important steps on the road back to constitutional government in Peru." Thereupon it resumed both diplomatic relations and U.S. economic aid amounting to $83 million this year...