Word: dictatorship
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...once called "the closest embodiment of the Johnsonian type of literary dictatorship the United States had known." From the image of the man and writer that emerges in this diary, it was a fitting sobriquet for journalist H.L. Menken...
...fact, such a development might produce stability of a distinctly unwelcome variety. Many times previously, the interaction of a weak civilian leadership and a strong military has plunged Panama -- and other U.S. client states in Central America -- into dictatorship. A week after the military triumph against Noriega, the U.S. was discovering again that it is much easier to depose a dictator than to establish a democracy...
...Deputy Foreign Minister. "There is no question of vengeance." But, he added, "we hope gradually to weed out all the top officials who supported Ceausescu." That kind of compromise made many newly liberated Rumanians uneasy about a potential alliance between the army and the bureaucracy -- and a possible new dictatorship in the making. Said Doina Cornea, a longtime dissident and a founder of the National Christian Peasant Party: "We don't need central control anymore...
...They are like cockroaches -- ugly, numerous, been around a long time and hard to kill," said a U.S. analyst in Washington last week. "They" are the Securitate, the Ceausescu dictatorship's ever present and dreaded security apparatus, whose members fought savagely for several days to keep the tyrant in power. Among the most vicious of such outfits in the history of the communist world, the Securitate was established in 1945, partly as a counterbalance to the regular military, and later, under Ceausescu, competing with it for funds. Its estimated 180,000 troops regarded themselves as being part of an elite...
...meantime, Gorbachev's vision of an independent but cooperative international system has allowed five East European countries to emerge from communist dictatorship. They are fledglings, with no established economic or commercial systems, and even with help from Western governments and corporations, it is not certain they all will succeed. Their work should be eased by large newly formed national-unity coalitions such as New Forum in East Germany, Civic Forum in Czechoslovakia and the Union of Democratic Forces in Bulgaria. Still, it is possible that after 40 years of Marxism ordinary workers will view the profit motive with hostility...