Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, what is by Soviet standards a spectacular thaw has got under way in the cultural domain. During the past year more than a dozen previously banned movies have been screened before fascinated audiences. On the stage, plays like Mikhail Shatrov's Dictatorship of Conscience examine past failures of Communism. Anatoli Rybakov's Children of the Arbat, a novel that chronicles the murderous Stalinist purges of the 1930s, appeared in a literary journal after going unpublished for two decades. Last month a group of ex-political prisoners and dissident writers applied for permission to publish their own magazine, aptly titled...
...Foreign Minister who two years ago became the country's largely ceremonial President, used to say there is a big difference between words and deeds. Yet in a country where one can be sent to the Gulag for saying the wrong thing, words are deeds. In a closed, hidebound dictatorship, Gorbachev's slogans of openness, restructuring and democratization are either particularly cynical or particularly significant. It is not yet clear which...
...surprisingly, Pivot's status as literary czar has fostered some resentment. In 1982 Writer Regis Debray, then an aide to President Mitterrand, denounced Pivot, accusing him of exercising a "virtual dictatorship over publishing markets." The public outcry over Debray's criticism was so strong that Mitterrand quickly endorsed Pivot, forcing Debray to beat a hasty retreat...
...claimed responsibility, but Vice President Victor Martinez blasted both "the extreme left and the ultra-right." Both sides, he said, had trampled on the "state of rights" that Argentines have enjoyed since 1983, when Raul Alfonsin became the country's first elected President after almost eight years of military dictatorship...
...dirty war and are presumed dead. Declared Hebe de Bonafini, president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, an organization of parents whose sons and daughters disappeared: "Obviously there was an agreement with the military. I don't think the government is with the people. It's like a dictatorship. Everything is fixed." Even Federal Prosecutor Julio Cesar Strassera, who led the government case against junta leaders two years ago, was quoted by a Spanish newspaper as calling the law an "error" and an "absurdity," adding that "society knows perfectly well what happened during those years." In Buenos Aires...