Word: dictatorship
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...Saleh, Arafat is "just another Arab head of state, like the others, running a dictatorship, with his own clique surrounding him." Anyway, he adds, "our future is determined by the Israelis and the Americans, who believe the Palestinians should be quiet and not make trouble. Therefore, we are given a little thing and that's it." Saleh, however, is not angry; his voice is dispassionate, matter-of-fact. "We live from day to day," he explains, returning to his counter. "I'm not willing to exhaust my energies awaiting the fulfillment of high hopes." Such resignation may prove the salvation...
...these diplomatic fibs? Because any rational policy toward a rising, threatening China would have exactly these two components: 1) containing China as it tries relentlessly to expand its reach, and 2) undermining its pseudo-Marxist but still ruthless dictatorship. Responsible statesmen are not allowed to say such things. Essayists...
...playing the part of the old Soviet Union? Not quite. There is no ideological component to this struggle. Until late in life, the Soviet Union had ideological appeal, with sympathizers around the globe. Today's China, unlike Mao's, has no such appeal. China is more an old-style dictatorship, not on a messianic mission, just out for power. It is much more like late 19th century Germany, a country growing too big and too strong for the continent it finds itself...
Jesse Helms, chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, attacked Clinton's recognition of "an unrepentant communist dictatorship." Senate majority leader Bob Dole condemned the move as "a strategic, diplomatic and moral mistake." Yet while both men threatened to block funding for a U.S. embassy in Hanoi, neither cared to acknowledge that the machinery of recognition had been set in motion by George Bush--and that the U.S., together with every other country, continues to have formal relations with all sorts of governments it does not altogether like...
...Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, "opponent'' is something of a career description. As part of Fidel Castro's rebel army in the 1950s, he led 3,000 men against the Batista dictatorship. When the victorious Castro moved politically into the Soviet camp, Menoyo launched a quixotic raid against his former comrades. That landed him in a Cuban jail for 22 years. Released in 1987, he flew to Miami, where he was greeted by cheering crowds of fellow exiles...