Word: dictatorship
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...There is a struggle between the pen and the sword,” he said. “We journalists like to say that the pen is mightier than the sword. The reality is that in a dictatorship, the pen suffers...
...Exempting Pakistan from too extensive a role as a staging ground raises the importance of Uzbekistan for U.S. operations inside Afghanistan. While the overwhelmingly Muslim former Soviet Republic run as something of a dictatorship by President Islam Karimov is not exactly a natural ally for Washington, there are sound reasons for making common cause. The Taliban and Bin Laden are intimately linked with the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which is fighting to overthrow Karimov. And cooperating with the U.S. also offers Uzbekistan an opportunity to break out of its traditional geopolitical dependence on Moscow...
...family's fortunes took a tumble in 1972, when Simonal was anonymously accused of having denounced his accountant to the police. Brazil at the time was suffering through one of the worst phases of the military dictatorship that ruled from 1964 to '85 (it is now a democracy). Simonal was never proved to have snitched, but his reputation was destroyed and he became unemployable. The family moved to a downscale neighborhood in Sao Paulo. Simonal became bitter, and left his wife and children in 1991, when De Castro was 18. Simonal died, broke and broken, last year. Wilson Simoninha...
...risk now is that Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, will fall apart just as Wahid's presidency did. The country is in deep trouble. It is emerging painfully from 32 years of the Suharto dictatorship, an era of forced social engineering and epic plunder. As the center collapses, ancient tribal and religious feuds have revived across the archipelago of 13,000 islands; 3,500 died in the violence last year. Unemployment is estimated at 40%, while corruption and economic bungling have kept foreign investment at "sub-zero," as a diplomat puts it. Most worrying of all, many...
...Rumsfeld, of course, still declined to refer to China as a "friend," preferring "communist dictatorship" instead. His differences with Powell are palpable, and yet they're always going to be settled by consensus. The balance may shift periodically, but within the limits defined by a long-term relationship in which both sides have an overriding self-interest...