Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy Administration, he turned his attention inland last week, and for good reason. There is a very real foe to fight at home. It is the underground rebellion, operating in Cuba's hills and cities, infiltrating the army and government agencies, doing more damage to the new dictatorship in six months than Castro had managed against the old in a year...
...liner, carrying 950 passengers and crewmen, was seized as a protest against the Portuguese dictatorship of Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, according to a message radioed by Galvao to newspapers all over the world. It was "a political action foreseen in the international maritime laws," Galvao declared. This is his fourth attempt to overthrow Premier Salazar's government...
...Georgia riot got an extra touch of disrespect for law when at 2:30 a.m. the Governor's executive secretary, Peter Zack Geer, commended the mob: "The students at the university have demonstrated that Georgia youth are possessed with the character and courage not to submit to dictatorship and tyranny...
...humiliating eleven for eleven; the U.S. pulled out altogether. The complete break presumably suits Castro to a T. One of the gravest embarrassments to the dictatorship was the daily line-up of desperate Cubans before the embassy seeking U.S. visas to flee his Communist state. As of last week, 52,000 applications were on file. And once again he needed a new crisis to distract Cuba's attention from the growing failures of his Marxist revolution...
Then the phone began to ring. Cries of "dictatorship," questions about enforcement, shrieks of fiscal pain descended upon the pastor's head. Soon the vicar general of the Newark archdiocese, Msgr. James A. Hughes, came to the rescue...