Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thus undermine the democratic values that are under attack. In the 1970s. Uruguay, once the model of democracy in South America, succeeded in wiping out the leftist Tupamaros. The cost was great: the get-tough climate set the stage for the military to seize power and set up a dictatorship. The dilemma of how to cope with terrorism is not lost on any European government these days. Spanish Premier Adolfo Suarez's center-right coalition warned last week that the Moro tragedy was not an isolated phenomenon but indicated "a generalized threat to all democracies and an intent...
...constitutional monarchy with highly trained, highly respectable and highly admirable people at the top is the best way to run a democracy. The moment you have any form of dictatorship of the right or left, such as Hitler's or Brezhnev's, freedom goes out the window...
...carried too far, such reasoning becomes circular and self-destructive. It exempts both the people and their representatives from the responsibility of using their minds, indeed from the responsibility of collaborating in the democratic process. It means the elevation (or lowering) of the presidency to a kind of magical dictatorship, where everything is the President's responsibility. This is often accompanied by a terrible kind of impatience, almost a sort of hysteria, where every problem, every mistake, or seeming mistake, becomes part of a self-reinforcing pattern of disaster. When Carter puts huge, long-range problems on the agenda...
Institutionalized violence can lead to war, genocide, dictatorship and social repression, Sharp added...
...hypercritical and based on a double standard-an argument that helped Vorster win a huge majority in last fall's national elections. A case in point: Carter in Lagos criticized injustice in South Africa but made no mention of the fact that Nigeria is a tough military dictatorship; criminals are regularly executed every Saturday on the Lagos beach. As the Afrikaner newspaper Beeld put it: "Morality is binding universally or not at all." On Rhodesia, the South Africans feel that Washington has made a number of strategic errors, initially by failing to use enough persuasive force on the Patriotic...