Word: dictatorship
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Harvard's actions described so complacently in the July-August Harvard Magazine show amazing insensitivity to the needs and rights of students and suggest more the atmosphere of a dictatorship than the freedom of a respected institution of learning. At the same time that Harvard was denouncing its students for not taking their protest to Washington and was praising President Bok for his political activity, it was also attempting to terrorize its students into silence at home. When that attempt failed, it summoned the protesters before Harvard's equivalent of the Star Chamber, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...
...voiced inside the Soviet Union. That may merely reflect well-advised caution by a leader who has seen past efforts at reform, notably Andropov's, sabotaged by the bureaucracy. For all his decisiveness, Gorbachev is the head of what really is a collective leadership, not a Stalinist dictatorship. His reluctance to take on the planners may also reflect a concern that economic decentralization implies an easing of political controls, which Gorbachev does not intend or feels he cannot risk at this point...
...billed as one of Greece's most important elections since World War II. At stake: the future direction of a volatile democracy still haunted by the memory of a right-wing dictatorship, perhaps even the stability of NATO's southern flank. The campaign had been spectacular and occasionally ugly, a succession of mammoth rallies, fiery oratory and occasional mudslinging. When the political chorus finally fell silent last week, there was a faint sense of relief in Western capitals. The paradoxical reason: Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, 66, the charismatic Socialist whose belligerent rhetoric and obstructionist ways have tested alliance patience since...
...Information Service building in downtown Seoul decided to call it quits, partly because of exhaustion and partly because of the quiet mediation of U.S. embassy officials. But as the students left, just after noon Sunday, each wore a white headband with the inscription DOWN WITH MILITARY DICTATORSHIP...
From their fortified redoubt, they unfurled banners out the window (U.S. STOP SUPPORT OF THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP, read one). They also scattered leaflets that condemned both the U.S. and the government of President Chun Doo Hwan. As 400 policemen surrounded the building, U.S. embassy officials moved to prevent a violent counterattack by reminding the government that Korean forces could not legally enter a U.S. diplomatic building. Calmly inviting U.S. diplomats inside for face-to-face conversations, the students delivered demands that centered on U.S. withdrawal of support from the Chun regime. Unless their appeals were met, they warned, they would...