Word: dictatorship
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...disinformation circulated by Iraq to make its foes think a military attack is unnecessary, and thus gain time for Saddam to try to disrupt the alliance against him. More important, hardship for civilians does not necessarily indicate any lessening of Iraq's ability to fight; Saddam's dictatorship can and will squeeze the civilian economy as hard as may be necessary to maintain supplies to the armed forces. Case in point: U.S. Secretary of State James Baker said on ABC-TV's This Week with David Brinkley that "tires are in short supply," but nongovernment sources in Washington say only...
...fact that capitalist foreigners were visiting at all suggests that the world's last great communist dinosaur is beginning to stir. As national alliances have been radically redrawn over the past year, the longest-running dictatorship in the world has found itself increasingly abandoned by the two patrons, Moscow and Beijing, that it has always managed to play off against each other. Pyongyang's sense of vulnerability was only sharpened when the Soviets, who account for 50% of North Korea's trade, established full diplomatic relations with South Korea in September. China, meanwhile, enjoys $3 billion a year of trade...
...government wants to reunify with Romania. Most Moldavian leaders emphatically deny this, and few observers believe the Kremlin would tolerate it. But Alexandru Moshanu, chairman of the Moldavian parliament, said last week that the future of the Soviet Union may hold only a choice between "chaos and a new dictatorship." If so, Moldavians may yet decide that they have no alternative but to try to erase the border with Romania...
...outcome that seems least likely is a return to the highly centralized totalitarian dictatorship of the past. Whatever happens at the Revolution Day celebrations, Yeltsin and his allies are pushing a new Russian Revolution, one that could remake the country almost as completely as, and hopefully more happily than, did the one 73 years...
...turned out, crusading against military dictatorship was far easier than running a government. In 20 months Bhutto's administration accomplished little besides developing a reputation for corruption, antagonizing the powerful army leadership and proving incapable of ending ethnic conflict in her home province of Sind. Citing parts of that record, the President dissolved her government in August and called for fresh elections...