Word: dictatorship
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...MIDST of last year's congressional wrangling over President Reagan's first budget, am indignant Democrat felt it necessary to declare. "This is not a dictatorship!" That contention, sadly, has not been proven by subsequent events. A House under nominal Democratic control wasted no time about "giving the President what he wanted"--carte blanche to impose a policy of economic and fiscal suicide upon the nation...
...miles to proper facilities in Britain, decided that Lanari's statement was concession :nough, especially when it was coupled with private assurances given to third parties that Argentina was done with fighting. Said a Thatcher aide: "One has to face up to the fact that a dictatorship, after that kind of defeat, finds itself in certain difficulties...
...coup is the rule the U.S. may have played in bringing it off. If Washington did organize Garcia's overthrow, then it would appear we have regressed back to the covert action days of the 1950s and 1960s. Such a policy gave Guatemala 28 years of military dictatorship and brought about the Bey of Plgs fiasco. And it characterizes the same mindset that led Presidents Johnson and Nixon to he to the American people about U.S. action abroad. We had all hoped that the crisis of integrity our government underwent was scrapped along with the E. Howard Hunts...
...benefitted from any form of legal procedure, and without having access to an attorney. It may be said that freedom of inquiry, opinion, speech and dissemination of thought does not exist. There are taboo questions which cannot be discussed such as all matters concerning the President's family, the dictatorship the extra-budgetary revenues of the Regie du Tabac [state-controlled tobacco industry] etc. There is recourse to procedures such as warnings and admonitions of increasing severity to journalists, issued by the Ministry of the Interior, there is also prior censor ship, closing of newspapers, threats, assaults and incarcerations...
...after a 14-year reign of server by Duvalier's father (Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier), the dictatorship passed without elections to a 19-year-old "Baby Doc." U.S. military ships in Fort-as-Prince Bay helped ensure a smooth transition. Today, U.S. ships still patrol Haitian waters, and Reagan plans to increase aid to Duvalier from $30 million to $50 million this year. The aid package includes helicopters and other weapons which end up in the hands of the tontons-macoutes...