Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading up to a permanent, perhaps bloody, dictatorship? No, insisted Chang, civilian democracy would return, though he was naming no dates. "We have not killed anyone, and no one will be killed without reason. We have a love of freedom. A patriotic cause moved our soldiers. This should be properly understood." But neither Chang nor tough little Major General Pak Chung-Hi, whom many consider the real power behind the junta, was willing to put the 7,000 Korean troops used in the revolt back under the authority of the United Nations Korea commander, the U.S.'s Carter...
With his guns and his Communist advisers, Fidel Castro had never looked stronger. It would be a long time before Cubans, either inside or outside the island, could mount a serious threat to his dictatorship. What would be done about him now became the problem of Cuba's neighbors in the hemisphere...
...crow of victory, for all its exaggerations, was closer to the bitter truth. At the Bay of Pigs, on Cuba's south coast, a force of 1,300 wellarmed, well-trained anti-Castro freedom fighters last week launched a major campaign to rid their homeland of Communist dictatorship. They were defeated within two days by a better-armed, better-led enemy, who withstood their attack and delivered a crushing counterblow. The defeat, as all the world sensed, was a tragedy not only for Cuba's exiles. It was a debacle for the U.S. as well. Through the offices...
...golden boy," a top-level CIA man said.) Artime agreed that something had to be done or morale among the Cubans, chafing under discipline in the Guatemalan camps, would begin to deteriorate. He also agreed that time would only favor Castro, enable him to root his dictatorship even more firmly in Cuban soil. When President Kennedy also agreed on the timing, it was Artime who was permitted to break the news for the new Cuba, while his fellow council members-including Mir-were held incommunicado...
...they quote in their program an excerpt from Camus' preface to the play, "...I look in vain for philosophy in these four acts." I look in vain for drama. Camus wrote Caligula in 1938, when he was twenty-five years old; and what interested him were the implications of dictatorship. It is to his eternal credit that he gave his villain all the best lines, all the most telling arguments. Desire for absolute power may be a form of madness, but to turn Caligula into a raving maniac would have been to build a straw man and knock him down...