Word: dictatorship
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...best seller in France?is still a diverting bagatelle abounding in gentle humor, warm bonhomie and appealing charm. No small triumph for a tale set in that unhappy era not too long ago when "every nook and cranny of the land came under the all-seeing eye of the dictatorship of the proletariat, which had cast its gigantic fine-meshed net over the whole of China...
...Greece, where memories of the seven-year military dictatorship that ended in 1974 are still fresh, there are concerns over purported plans to grant the police greater surveillance powers. "Where does the snooping stop?" asks Yannis Panoussis, a professor of criminology at Athens University. "There are no assurances that it will stop at the suspect himself, but instead may include one?s family, relatives, lovers and dogs. What the Americans have achieved after Sept. 11 is to globalize their terror...
Tameenah went further, arguing that as the transition from Taliban to Northern Alliance rule takes place, the country is simply moving from one dictatorship to another. Democracy has been left aside in the current negotiation process taking place, she said...
...greatest right a country can offer to its citizens is to be left alone,” he said, describing the censorship policies that characterized the beginning of Hitler’s dictatorship. “First he banned the pornography and then the Voltaire and Shakespeare...
Kabila said the Congo’s troubles stem back to the days of Belgian imperialism, when the needs of the people were neglected while the land was stripped of its rich natural resources. The country received its independence in 1960, but fell into chaos and then dictatorship under Mobutu Sese-Seko...