Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign, the chief argument of all non-Communist political parties had been that the Communist vote must be held down, else Moscow might demand the inclusion of Reds in the Finnish Cabinet. Without mentioning Russia, political advertisements boldly warned that a vote for the Communists was a vote for "dictatorship." Newspapers and broadcasters loudly urged "sofa loungers" to get out and vote, since a light turnout would only aid the efficiently mobilized Communist Party. The Reds fought hard: in northernmost Lapland, the Communists cornered almost all the local taxis to shuttle their supporters to the polls...
Hughes declared that "all anti-Communist prosecution makes no sense" because American Communists have never presented "a clear and present danger of establishing a dictatorship in this country...
Nobody changed sides. But the U.S. could take considerable comfort in the fact that every one of Cuba's 20 neighbors saw-and in their speeches condemned-the dangerous presence of a Communist dictatorship on their door steps. Of the six abstentions in the formal vote on expulsion, Mexico balked by declaring that under inter-American treaties, only "moral" condemnation was legal. Brazil, torn by economic and political chaos since Jánio Quadros' renunciation of the presidency last August, was clearly afraid that a yes vote would further divide its people. Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile...
...within a framework of democratic consent, said Rusk, an "alliance for progress" had been carried out within the U.S. And he eloquently pleaded: "Let us take action now to guard our own continent and our programs of democratic reforms against those who seek to replace democracy by dictatorship-those who would transform our fellowship of free states into the bondage of satellites." The Cubans, led by Castro's puppet President Osvaldo Dorticós, laughed out loud. The other 19 delegations gave Rusk a standing ovation. But though the delegates stood together to applaud in the resort...
...selfless country doctor fighting disease among his country's poverty-stricken peasants. But after four years, Haiti's 3,750,000 Negroes are still no better off (annual per capita income: less than $100), and the Duvalier regime has turned into the traditional model of a dictatorship, gobbling up graft and relying on strongman methods to keep itself in power. All the while, Duvalier, who in the past four years has received some $30 million in U.S. aid to keep his people from starving, angrily insists that Washington send him still more dollars...