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...Philippines a dictatorship...
...chants in Manila certainly were. Last week 5,000 demonstrators marched near the palace gates, vowing to avenge the slayings of two students who had been shot by security forces during an earlier protest. The next day 2,000 women paraded through the capital to protest the "Marcos-Reagan dictatorship." Then U.S. Ambassador Stephen Bosworth charged that 15 Americans have been killed in the Philippines during the past two years, four of them "allegedly at the hands of security forces." At week's end there was more bad news for Marcos: one of his physicians, Dr. Potenciano Baccay...
Stability is an elusive quality in Portuguese politics. Since it ousted the dictatorship in 1974, the country has been ruled by 16 governments. Last week's parliamentary elections promised yet another minority government. The right-of-center Social Democrats emerged as the leading party with 30% of the vote. But with about 85 seats in the 250-member parliament, they are well short of the majority needed to ensure a four-year tenure for the new Prime Minister, Anibal Cavaco Silva, 46. It was Cavaco Silva who triggered the collapse of the government last July when he pulled...
...with ambiguities and contradictions. "I finally confirm," he announced in Port Elizabeth, "that my party and my government are committed to the principle of a united South Africa, one citizenship and a universal franchise." But, Botha warned, one man, one vote in a unitary state would result in the "dictatorship of the strongest black group," which would lead to "greater struggle and more bloodshed...
...World War II. When some 3,000 Peking University students tried to take an anti-Japan demonstration off campus, the police stopped them with force. Later the authorities closed the university area to outsiders after students mounted banners calling for more democracy and "an end to dictatorship...