Word: dictatorship
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...sense of trepidation. As Zairians contemplate the possibility of getting rid of one despot, they shudder at the prospect of replacing him with another. "If Kabila were in power," muses one surgeon in Kinshasa, "we would have to make him understand that we do not want to live under dictatorship. I have suffered so much. I cannot live like that again...
Arafat's regime is, indeed, as Levitin points out, a "murderous dictatorship." It is one of the tragedies of the Palestinian people that their aspirations for free self-determination are now being crushed by their erstwhile, trusted leader. However, Levitin's touting of Israeli democracy is more problematical. Israel has historically been vastly more "murderous" than the Palestinians, in terms of numbers of civilians killed. These killings continue, as the families of the 200 Palestinian civilians killed since the Oslo agreement will attest. And democracy? Vast tracts of "public" land in Israel are owned by the Jewish National Fund, whose...
...make good on a Bucaram campaign pledge to give every school-age child a free backpack. Of 400,000 ba ckpacks ordered from Colombia, only 3,000 arrived. The money, of course, is gone. Bucaram continues to maintain he is the victim of political persecution by a "civilian dictatorship" that has taken over Ecuador--and that he was the nation's "most honest president" the last decade. If nothing else, he's probably been the best compensated...
...Oslo Accords, American law and precedent are clearly on the Israeli side. Yet President Clinton, a self-proclaimed friend of Israel, has rebuked Israel, not the Palestinians. It seems that the United States expects more restraint and abnegation of national interest from Israeli democracy than from Arafat's murderous dictatorship...
Deng was an enemy of dissent, though not of capitalism. And while Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Samuel P. Huntington might conceive of this paradox favoring economic freedom but not political as a cultural characteristic, I am prone to side with those who label it dictatorship...