Word: dictatorship
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...have old-fashioned legal institutions, emphasizing dictatorship, which must be replaced with a more democratic form of government," said Edgar Teran before a group of about...
...into Vietnam for all the "right" reasons. We went there to protect the country and the region from an oppressive, murderous dictatorship. By the time the war ended, not only were many thousands of Americans dead, but we were just as oppressive and murderous as our opponents, and we had expanded the war throughout South east Asia...
History provides no explanation, either. Francisco Franco, a rightist generalisimo who received aid from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in the early years of his four-decade-long dictatorship, tried to impose a rigid moralistic and nationalist ethos upon Spain. Liberal intellectuals and partisans of Basque, Galicia, and Catalonia culture bristled under Franco...
Well, I leave at 300 for South Africa, where I'm going to be working on a movie for Brace Beresford called. "The good Man in Africa," with scan Cannery. It's a very satirical look at post-colonial British diplomats in a West African tinpot dictatorship. And I'm coming back for 48 hours for ArtsFirst. So if I can come back all the way from South Africa, just tell those freshmen they can come over from Wigglesworth. (Laughs...
...practically can. Clinton and his aides could see no alternative to Yeltsin who would not be much worse for the causes of free- market democracy in Russia and friendliness between the Kremlin and the White House. The Russian's promise of democracy as the goal of an interim semi-dictatorship gave the Administration a plausible excuse for making its support prompt and public -- though some officials confided that the backing would have been forthcoming, reluctantly, even if Yeltsin had acted more autocratically than...