Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RABAT: The prostate cancer that killed Mobutu Sese Seko here Sunday night was the one that sounded the death knell for his Zairean dictatorship, according to TIME Nairobi correspondent Peter Graff. "In the last year, he became physically sick, incapable of functioning as a leader ... That's when his people began to say things about Mobutu they never dared say before, and when his own army refused to fight for him. It was his sickness that did it. He ruled for 32 years and was ousted in seven months...
After leaving Soviet-controlled Hungary for London in 1947, Soros fell under the spell of a college professor, the philosopher Karl Popper. It was Popper who coined the term open society--meaning one in which argument and debate are encouraged, the opposite of a dictatorship, which claims an ultimate truth but derives it only through force. Soros' approach to investing, indeed his whole life, is informed by Popper's work...
...Mobutu was long overdue. He was flying too high. He should nonetheless be commended for keeping an impotent band of troops, which helped avert massive bloodshed in the diamond-rich Central African state. I hope somebody will offer Kabila an honorary degree as a Destroyer of the Dictatorship. He is a man of determination and well-founded principles. I'm sure he knows better what the country needs. ALEXANDER KALIMBIRA Corvallis...
...sanctions come after years of alleged human rights violations by the Burmese government, a military dictatorship, which, according to Clinton, has become more repressive in recent months...
Gates harshly criticized the Nigerian dictatorship. "It's terrible that the government has illegally accused him of treason," Gates said. "We all look forward to the day when the Nigerian government has toppled...