Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Redrejo saw "only two solutions to the problem of succession--fascism, in the form of another military dictatorship, or the restoration of the monarchy. Neither is a genuine political solution," he said...
...decisions by other government branches, including those of the courts. Slavishly socialist, it pledges eternal devotion to the Soviet Union and declares that East Germany has the responsibility to lead the rest of Germany "into a future of peace and Socialism." Formally establishing the old Marxist goal of the dictatorship of the proletariat, it states that "all political power is exercised by the working class"-which means, of course, the Communist Party. In a tacit reference to the Wall, the new document confines freedom of movement for East Germany's 17 million people to the country's boundaries...
...police at Wayne University, the service disclosed, plan to curb demonstrations with rifles, shotguns, and a tractor that converts into a tank. A lead to a story about counterinsurgency research at a subsidiary of Stanford University said: "Stanford has gone to war on the side of the elitist military dictatorship in Thailand...
...easy for an American to be-little the way of life of the Haitian peasantry, to despair the poverty, and to dismiss the country as a fascist dictatorship. But most Haitians would dismiss the American dream with equal ease and with possibly more justification. For what, after all, is progress, when Americans flounder in their affluence and persist in the path of war, racism, and riot...
...accomplished by decree. He had asked the National Assembly for special powers to rule the country's economic sphere by fiat for one year. By a surprising vote of 85-10, the House of Representatives turned Thieu down. Explained one representative, Nguyen Van Nheiu: "Special powers lead to dictatorship." Thieu still has a chance to have his way if the Senate approves the measure and sends it back to the House. But if nothing else, the exchange demonstrated that the fledgling constitutional rule begun last fall amid such high hopes was still alive and functioning despite all the havoc...