Word: dictatorship
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...been a little better than nine years since these women began their weekly marches outside Government House in downtown Buenos Aires to demand information on their "disappeared" children. For the first six years, when a ruthless military dictatorship ruled the land, they were ridiculed as "the Crazy Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo" because they weren't silent like all the rest. For the last three years, in which Argentina has enjoyed a return to democratic rule, the mothers of the plaza have continued to don their characteristic white kerchiefs to issue more broad (some will say more ill-defined...
...street in broad daylight simply because they shared a last name with someone the government suspected of having guerrilla connections, in which the economy is 60 percent government controlled and most depend on Government House to put their daily bread on the table, and in which years of military dictatorship have left the lesson that if you are quiet and obedient you will survive, everyone to a certain extent condoned the military. Everyone was both a victim and an accomplice. Except the mothers...
...depends on what is meant by reality. In a dictatorship allergic to cameras and hostile to free reporting, even to show "ordinary life" often requires Soviet permission, and vetting of who is shown. Print journalists manage to suggest these limitations in what they write. But on the screen the eye sees an irrefutable "reality" that compellingly overrides whatever the ear is being told. This is what makes television so powerful, and on occasion so worrisome. As shown, Rita Tikhonova, the model 21-year-old Moscow student who becomes a teacher, is a real and sympathetic individual. The unstated implication...
...Rumania's First Lady, but her true role is more akin to royal consort and heir apparent to her husband President Nicolae Ceausescu. In his grim dictatorship, she increasingly appears to be the power behind the throne. Already Elena Ceausescu, 67, is the object of a personality cult that rivals that of the 68-year-old President. Her birthday, like his, is a national holiday, her portrait waves in street parades, and the Rumanian media resound with her praise. She is variously hailed as the "woman-hero," the "party's torch," the "guiding spirit behind science and culture" and even...
Once a land of repressive dictatorship, Spain is taking its ten-year-old democracy in stride. The old political extremes have largely evaporated, and the majority has steadily moved toward the center. The ruling Socialists have also shifted, abandoning their calls for radical social change. In his campaign, Gonzalez, 44, calmly asked for four more years to consolidate his party's gains...