Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Frei knows Chile's leverage with Britain and Spain is limited, but he'll keep fighting for Pinochet's release in order to placate his own military -- a good idea, since the general's immunity was the military's precondition for ending its dictatorship...
...more like a family where you have strong family members," Clark says. "It's not a dictatorship. There's not a power issue...
...face of it, those are not promising materials for creating a Nigerian version of Nelson Mandela. But in a country where everything but misery is in short supply, people have learned to make do with whatever is at hand. Daily life in Nigeria deteriorated disastrously under Abacha's dictatorship as the economy and infrastructure crumbled. Unemployment and corruption inflamed ethnic animosity. The facts about Abiola became far less important to people than the image they could build around him of a democratic future they yearned to have...
China might look like a monolithic one-party dictatorship, but it's not: Ask President Clinton, who struggled to show the world today that the seeds of democracy are being planted here. "Your achievements are a window for all the world to see what local democracy has brought to China and what a brighter future you are building," Clinton told a gathering of elected local officials in the village of Xiahe. Of course, Chinese "democracy" might be unfamiliar to Americans -- there's only one political party in the world's most populous country. Still, the recent shift from having local...
...what we can buy, when we can buy and whom we can buy from. A cashless society is not about freedom, as banks would have us believe; it is about controlling the consumer. Such a society would be the end of America and the beginning of a banking-corporate dictatorship. MARK WOODRAL Philomath...