Word: dictatorship
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...Iraq, even if Saddam Hussein is removed from office, his successors are likely to form a military dictatorship or a theocratic regime. Meanwhile, there were hints from Kuwait that the Emir, having been so slow to return home, is now in no hurry to re-establish a national assembly...
...forces of democracy in the Soviet Union. His television statements marked the definitive split between the nation's two most powerful politicians. Yeltsin accused Gorbachev of "deceiving" the people by failing to enact the radical economic reforms he had promised and by accumulating enough personal power to create a dictatorship. "I have made my choice," Yeltsin said. "I believe in the support of the peoples of Russia, and I hope...
...Jewish woman, I have no desire to be the target of bigoted epithets. But I also know that dictatorship begins not with name-calling, but consent to the official suppression of the name-callers. They may think I am as offensive and irrational as I think them. This, nevertheless, does not give the university the right to step in and decide which of us is right. Brown's overzealous administration needs to realize that a community that protects freedom of speech cannot be founded on coercion...
...favorite rallying cry of the hard- liners. Declared an Interior Ministry colonel: "People are afraid to walk the streets. Something must be done." But reformers are skeptical. Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, who now stands at the head of the democratic opposition, called the moves "a serious step toward dictatorship." Reformers argued that bringing troops into the streets has involved the military in areas beyond its competence. Said the independent weekly Moscow News: "The army must not be used as a muzzle on the people...
When former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze warned the world against dictatorship in the Soviet Union, he had some harsh words as well for democrats in his country. "You have dispersed," he complained. "Reformers have slunk into the bushes." So it seemed until last week, when people by the tens of thousands reappeared on the streets of Moscow, Leningrad and other cities to protest military intervention in the Baltics. No event since the advent of perestroika has so polarized Soviet society as the bloodshed in Vilnius. It has widened the chasm between reformers and reactionaries, leaving almost no support...