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Four years after the popular uprising that overthrew the bloody and grasping dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaragua is still lurching through an erratic political and social transformation, in which many of the ultimate goals of the regime are, at best, haphazardly defined. Consequently, Nicaragua abounds in paradox and ambiguity as its leadership claims to be launched upon a new experiment: an attempt to align Marxism-Leninism with the principles of political pluralism and democracy. Says a sympathetic American observer: "The Sandinistas really like to believe they have invented a new way, a laissez-faire, nonstructured Marxism in which people...
...foreign policy. "Aquino's death was a great loss not only for the Phillipines but for America. He was very important. America made a great mistake to deal with Marcos, and because America supported Marcos. Aquino's assassination was a kind of result of the American policy to support dictatorship...
...Program on Nonviolent Sanctions in Conflict and Defense hopes to analyze and refine nonviolent methods of meeting the challenges of dictatorship, war, genocide, and oppression...
...Chiang Kaishek, his armies exhausted by the fight against the Japanese invader and his regime weakened by raging internal corruption, fled to offshore exile in Taiwan. The disciplined Communists brought literacy and better health to the masses, but ruthlessly exterminated much of the middle class and fastened a tight dictatorship on China. The Soviet Union and China, those historic enemies, proclaimed their "fraternal" unity, and though it did not last, the perception of a monolithic Communism had much to do with the later U.S. involvement in Korea and Viet...
...capitalist enemy. Some went silently to the cellar. Some, like Molotov in his days as premier, stepped uncomplainingly aside and lived on, even rising to high power again. But nobody before had ever fallen as Georgy Malenkov, once the presumed heir to Stalin's dictatorship, fell last week...