Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exchange a third of his life in prisons and psychiatric clinics for the dignity of saying nyet. It gained him an international reputation for incorrigible heroics. In 1976 the Soviet government solved their embarrassment by swapping Bukovsky for Chilean Communist Luis Corvalan, then a prisoner of the Pinochet dictatorship. Today Bukovsky lives in England, where he has resumed his frequently interrupted study of biology...
...growing number of intellectuals, professionals and members of the middle class fear that instead of ushering in a new era of freedom, the revolution will result in an Islamic dictatorship as repressive as the Shah's regime. Those worries deepened last week when Khomeini passed along his guidelines for the reform of Iran's legal code. He ordered Justice Minister Assadollah Mobasheri to repeal all laws that "contravene Islam." Henceforth, all trials must end "in a final, absolute decision in a single phase." The right of women to seek divorces, established by a 1975 law enacted under...
...brief. The collapse of his regime stemmed in part from the inherent instability of his power base. A member of a small Muslim tribe in a country whose population of 9.5 million is 60% Christian, Amin channeled the government's meager economic resources into building up his military dictatorship. He ordered repeated religious and tribal purges in the army and imported numbers of mercenaries, including Nubian soldiers from the Sudan. He also recruited Palestinian guerrillas for his personal bodyguard...
Zinn said, "We have a general problem of dictatorship here." Zinn said faculty and students were ignored or intimidated by the administration, and added, "the sense of outrage is widespread...
...Coup, the product of this new perspective, is quite simply a marvelous book. The tale of a coup in the mythical sub-Saharan dictatorship of Kush--"a constitutional monarchy with the constitution suspended and the monarch deposed"--becomes for Updike the vehicle of a biting, driving wit, a brilliant farce that together lambastes America, the Soviet Union, radicals, bureaucrats, poets, capitalists and, of course, lovers. Being Updike, the author retains enough of his obsession with bedroom mores and manners to fill the book with ruminations of love and lust, the foibles of marriage and the freedom of adultery--but happily...