Word: dictatorship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ought not to be taken as a given that if the centrist regime were to fall, the victors would be the left. The right is not a one-man dictatorship, like Somoza's, but a rather powerful grouping that is able to function effectively even without possession of the government...
Born into a noble landowning family in Kurow, he rose to the top ranks of a proletarian dictatorship. Forcibly deported to the Soviet Union after Stalin and Hitler partitioned his homeland in 1939, he later became one of Moscow's staunchest advocates, and according to some accounts took a Soviet wife. Alternately called a moderate and a hard-liner by Western observers, he seems to be above all a survivor. To many, that is precisely what Poland needs at this hour...
Mitterrand's strategy will be to take advantage of Giscard's weaknesses without calling attention to his own. "We are not under a dictatorship, but no longer quite in a republic," he warned somberly in his kickoff speech before 20,000 faithful at Paris' Porte de Versailles. "We live in a form of disguised monarchy that may no longer be constitutional." But the Socialist leader studiously evades the most awkward question: With whom would he govern, now that the Socialist-Communist Alliance of the '70s is dead? Disingenuously, Mitterrand answers that if elected, he would call...
Even many leftist politicians admired the personable, reformist technocrat for the way he presided successfully over the risky transition from the 40-year dictatorship of Francisco Franco to a democracy under his friend King Juan Carlos...
...world and the U.S. role in it. In an exchange with Majority Leader Howard Baker, he emphatically declared that he believes "there are things worth fighting for." Recalling that the U.S. was "spawned by armed conflict" and that the U.S. fought in World War II "to prevent dictatorship and genocide," Haig added: "We must structure our foreign policy on that credible and justifiable premise." He warned that the steady Soviet military buildup since World War II has produced "perhaps the most complete reversal of global power relationships ever seen in a period of relative peace ... Unchecked, the growth of Soviet...