Word: dictatorship
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...grenades into their midst. Thick clouds of blinding fumes soon routed the protesters, sending them gasping and reeling. One band of Buddhist monks were gassed and shoved as they tried to enter their temple. Chanted several gray- robed monks as they were driven back: "Restore democracy! Overthrow the dictatorship...
...students, especially the radical hard-liners. On every side, demands are growing that President Chun Doo Hwan reform a regime that, while not nearly as repressive as Communist North Korea's, stifles dissent and tortures and imprisons political opponents. In frequent demonstrations, university students have demanded an end to dictatorship when Chun, a former general who seized power in 1980, fulfills a pledge to step down next February. The students' aim is nothing less than to bring what they consider democracy to a country that is rapidly becoming an economic power while remaining politically mired in the autocratic traditions...
...cannot do the job. They cannot win. How these experts divine the outcome of civil wars is hard to fathom. The contras have more than twice the recruits the Sandinistas had when they overthrew Somoza. Which side is today more popular? It is hard to find out in a dictatorship. But it is worth noting that the Sandinistas have a conscript army, while the contras are a volunteer force...
Some German and American commentators have gone so far as to dismiss the upsurge of Teutonic racism, citing the restraining effect of 40 years of national guilt. They should not. Germans have suffered for their fathers, and there is no reason to believe that Germany will again accept violent dictatorship; yet in trying to preserve its pride, Germany is retreating from the tradition of tolerance that it has tried to establish during the last 40 years...
Already published is Chingiz Aitmatov's The Executioner's Scaffold, which removed the taboo from the subject of drug addiction in our country. Poet Andrei Voznesensky published his powerful The Ditch, a piece about thieves who robbed the graves of Nazi victims. Mikhail Shatrov's antidictatorship play Dictatorship of Conscience is being performed...