Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rumania, including President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Party, President of the State Council, President of the Defense Council, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and Chairman of the Supreme Council on Social and Economic Development. Another, more sinister theory: with weaknesses in the tough Rumanian dictatorship showing up in the form of strikes in the coal fields and criticism by dissidents, other members of the regime might be delighted to pin everything that has been going on in the country on their boss...
...various pistols and ammunition. He claimed he got the weapons from the military, which handed them out during the aborted 1975 leftist uprising. Last week the army chiefs of staff confirmed that arms had been distributed to "democratic elements" when "totalitarian forces"-meaning the Communists-threatened to install a dictatorship...
DIED. Spruille Braden, 83, outspoken ambassador to three Latin American countries who became Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs (1945-47); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. Brash yet amiable, Braden was a spokesman for democratic liberties in the Western Hemisphere, ever on the crusade against dictatorship. In 1940, as Ambassador to Colombia, he managed the firing of pro-Nazi pilots who endangered the Panama Canal. As fervently anti-Communist as he was anti-Nazi, Braden later took a firm cold war stance, calling for a U.S. invasion of Cuba...
...backers in Athens, the Secretary of State did not disguise his relief at the defeat of Makarios, whom he had long regarded as a mercurial, left-leaning troublemaker. By his refusal to denounce the coup, Kissinger seemed to tilt toward Sampson and the military rulers. Then, when democracy replaced dictatorship in Greece, and Turkey switched from being an aggrieved neighbor to an often brutal occupier of Cyprus, Kissinger shifted his stance in favor of Ankara. Throughout the episode, in the metaphor of Author Stern's title, the U.S. backed "the wrong horse...
...democracy fared well. Not, however, in South Africa, where the government of Prime Minister John Vorster cracked down harder than ever upon a restless but dispirited black majority and banned or arrested many of the country's leading voices of dissent. But in Spain, after four decades of repressive dictatorship, more than 20 million voters turned out peacefully to accomplish what Spanish newspapers called "a triumph of moderation." Parties of both the far left and far right were rejected in favor of a middle-of-the-road government headed by Premier Adolfo