Word: dictatorship
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...Nichols is no longer a member of the Sisters of St. Francis, and the person she and Jack are retrieving is not dead. Amelita Sosa has in fact been smuggled by Lucy out of Nicaragua, footsteps ahead of Colonel Dagoberto Godoy, a murderous former member of the Somoza military dictatorship and now a leader of the contras in their armed struggle against the ruling Sandinistas. The colonel, for rather complex reasons, has come to New Orleans to kill Amelita, his onetime mistress, and to solicit private businessmen for contributions to be used, ostensibly, to arm the contras. The figure...
What remains, then, is what Political Philosopher Michael Walzer calls "failed totalitarianism": dead, bureaucratic rule marked by exhaustion and resignation, a hollow ideology, conformity without belief. A shell of the totalitarian idea. Does this mean, then, that the famous distinction between this system and traditional authoritarianism (e.g., nonideological dictatorship like that of Somoza or Marcos) disappears? No, because one crucial difference remains: only one system continues to aspire to totality, to colonizing every nook and cranny of social life...
...message was different. Meeting with reporters at the United Nations in New York, Wolde said he was resigning his post and lashed out at his nation's pro-Soviet regime. Said he: "I have recently watched, with helplessness, as my country slipped further and further into authoritarianism and absolute dictatorship, with the inevitable consequences of intolerance and repression...
Fourteen years of lies in the controlled Philippine press, once the most respected institution in the old Republic, did not dull the appetite for truth - or save the dictatorship from it. Marcos had the media and the guns, we had the truth . . . The media are effective as the instruments of truth, from which they draw their real power. The media do not make or unmake governments; tanks do that, and, more rarely but surely, people do. And, even armed with the truth, the media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with...
...will be a hard climb uphill. I hope that just as you sympathized with us in our hard days of struggle, so you will support us now in our efforts to build a country to match our pride. As you channeled your power to undo a dictatorship, so may you channel it now to help create an enduring democracy. I ask that you use media's tremendous power to build up rather than to tear down, to create rather than to destroy...