Word: dictatorship
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Aristide has always been the Third World leader the U.S. thinks it ought to like but can't. He was the priest who helped topple the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986--and then the elected President whom thousands of U.S. G.I.s restored to power after a military coup a decade ago. Yet he is also seen as a mystic demagogue whose Fanmi Lavalas Party allegedly committed electoral fraud in last May's Senate races. Bush, as a result, sent no one to Aristide's inauguration...
...fitting, but rare touch, Heston appears in an ape cameo. As a US Air Force pilot, Wahlberg crash lands on a foreign planet, only to be captured by highly evolved intelligent apes (led by a costumed Michael Clarke Duncan) that run their society like a violent, fascist dictatorship and have the helmets to match. Humans are marginalized and degraded as captive slaves, a treatment that inspires Wahlberg to escape from monkey prison and lead a human...
...would be hard to do worse than his father did. When the one-time Marxist Laurent-Désiré - backed by Rwanda and Uganda - ousted the venal Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997, he was greeted with cheers and optimism. After three decades of kleptocratic dictatorship, it seemed that Congo could finally begin again. But the senior Kabila's promise of national reconstruction didn't get much further than slogans and billboards. Within a year the country was back at war, and the smiling giant had cracked down on political opponents and postponed promised elections. So when a bodyguard shot...
...ACQUITTED. LIEUT. COLONEL OTELO SARAIVA DE CARVALHO, a hero of the 1974 pro-democracy revolution that ended dictatorship in Portugal, after a 17-year-long terrorism trial; by a court in Lisbon...
...Gulf War for the most part don't believe that a proxy war to overthrow Saddam is a sound strategy - they have serious doubts, echoed by many in the Pentagon, about the abilities of a loose and diverse coalition of opposition groups to defeat the dictatorship, much less of the notion that such an outcome would actually enhance regional stability...