Word: dictatorship
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...certain that the military dictatorship produced the greatest, most savage tragedy in our history." These words were the conclusion to 50,000 pages of testimony and evidence issued last week by Argentina's National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons. President Raul Alfonsin had appointed the panel shortly after he was sworn in last December. Its mission: to investigate the so-called dirty war waged against terrorism by the Argentine military from 1974 until Alfonsin's election...
...country's formidable military arsenal and of any plans to use Nicaragua's Punta Huete airport, still under construction, as a base for advanced military aircraft; 4) fulfillment of Sandinista promises to support political pluralism, meaning reversal of the country's drift toward a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship...
...Iowa girl had first been moved by the Depression-era plight of the Midwestern farmers. On a visit to Cuba in 1935, she chronicled the hopeless resistance to the new Batista dictatorship. The same year she was in Nazi Germany reporting on opposition to Hitler. In Spain in 1937, she witnessed the death throes of the Spanish Republic. Her biographer asks: "What could be a more vivid embodiment of a life lived according to principle...
...called People's Plebiscite, which will in fact legalize dictatorship, must be stopped. Aubrey writes letters to editors, signs manifestoes. Dina looks on skeptically: "His passion, his sincerity, could not be disputed. The only thing that could be disputed was his capacity to stem the tide of events." Aubrey's spirits soar when Alexander Richer, an old college friend and now a prominent British journalist, responds to a whim and decides to visit Cuyama for a few days. Aubrey tells Dina: "It's a great coup for us to have him' coming out here." Perhaps...
...taken the U.S. 18 years to discover what most Filipinos know: the Marcos dictatorship is filled with cruelties. Without American assistance, the government would have fallen long ago. America's belated awakening to Marcos' tyranny is a poignant testimony to the insensitivity that underlies American policy in this region...