Word: dictatorship
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...many say put him over, was Nunn's enlistment of Alabama Governor George Wallace as a public supporter of his candidacy. Nunn's memory of that ploy is somewhat selective. "You have to keep the context in mind," says Nunn -- a "context" that also caused him to attack the "dictatorship created by lifetime tenure of federal judges." "After the primary," says Nunn, "Maddox was leaning toward supporting my Republican opponent, who was running an ad showing George McGovern with Coretta King over a line about how they were warming Georgia up for me. I counteracted that with Wallace...
...recognize anti-imperialism as a key element in Latin American politics, one that crosses even the sharpest of class boundaries. One of the last countries in the hemisphere to achieve independence from the Spanish, Cuba remained under American political protectorateship until 1948. The final years of the Batista dictatorship were marked by high-volume American investment and advice...
...Nicaragua, a century and a half of American invasions and interventions--including one in which an American journalist, William Walker, declared himself president--fostered resentments that culminated in the overthrow of the U.S.-installed Somoza dictatorship. The insurgents in both Cuba and Nicaragua were largely able to mobilize cross-class support on promises not of Communism but of independence...
...until a week or so ago, I was coach 'Horn.' I was everybody's buddy. Now I walk in and I'm the man with the stick. You got to let them know who's in charge. This is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship."--Arizona interim basketball Coach Bob Schermerhorn...
That power finally sweeps away one's resistance to the film's major improbability. It asks us to believe that the FBI, in those days still under J. Edgar Hoover's dictatorship, would have mounted an elaborate sting operation to bring the murderers at last to some rough justice under federal anticonspiracy statutes. That seems unlikely, especially given Hoover's hatred of Martin Luther King and his allies. Still, narrow historical criticism somehow seems irrelevant to a movie that so powerfully reanimates the past for the best of reasons: to inform the spirit of today and possibly tomorrow...