Word: dictatorship
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Peter recognizes Biehl's as an improvement over the previous places to which he was assigned. There is adequate food, heat in the buildings, and 26 teachers responsible for only 240 students. But there are occasional cuffings for rule infractions or poor lesson performance, plus the dictatorship of clocks and bells: "It was not just the classes and assembly that began on the dot. There was also a study period and the meals and the chores and voluntary sports and lights-out and when you had to get up if you were to manage a proper wash...
Addressing Israel's parliament, Austria's president apologized today for his country's role in the Holocaust. Austrians have rarely acknowledged the fact that "many of the worst henchmen in the Nazi dictatorship were Austrians," President Thomas Klestil said. "Today, we Austrians recognize that an acknowledgment of the full truth was long overdue." The speech came at the end of Klestil's three-day visit to Israel -- the first by an Austrian head of state. For years, Austria denied persecuting Jews during World War II, even though 70,000 died within its borders. The relationship between Israel and Austria...
...Pentagon, a post-Castro Cuba cannot be truly capitalistic and democratic if the military is ingrained in the economy. But as other communist governments have learned, economic reforms often create a market for democracy. Raul and his generals may yet discover how difficult it is to run a capitalistic dictatorship...
Though their safety is not threatened, something just as precious is at stake: their jobs. The civil servant ranks have swollen from 27,000 during the days of the Duvalier dictatorship to 55,000 under the junta. With so many to do so little, government work days are often filled with cups of coffee and idle chatter. Yet their salaries gobble up 80% of the national treasury. To comply with the demands of the International Monetary Fund, Aristide must pare those ranks to 34,000. Whether these bureaucrats will back Aristide's efforts or try to gridlock his attempts...
...finance shopping sprees in the U.S. that bought hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate and jewelry for herself and her husband. By the time the lawyers were done, anyone who followed the news closely enough to have knowledge of Imelda's role in her husband's dictatorship had been struck from the panel. One juror was unsure whether Imelda was a man or a woman...