Word: dictatorship
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...charges against all ten defendants are serious. Lin Biao's allies will be charged with sedition and plotting to kill Mao. The Gang of Four will be on the block for "conspiracy to overthrow the proletarian dictatorship, persecution of cadres and the practice of a fascist dictatorship," and for trying to "engineer a counterrevolutionary armed rebellion...
...weekend, on the eve of the eighth anniversary of martial law, Marcos appeared on national television in the Philippines and accused Aquino of colluding with the U.S. to undermine his regime and of sponsoring the wave of urban terrorism which has stricken the country and threatens to topple the dictatorship. The next day, however, Marcos made a public offer asking Aquino to return home and accept a "high government post," in the hope of restoring order to a nation in disarray...
...surprising that South Korea's military dictatorship has tried to clamp down on democratic forces in an effort to consolidate its grip. Nor is it surprising that the regime refuses to cleave to democratic principles, particularly when the U.S. does nothing more than whimper. It is time, then, for Carter to surprise everyone by sticking to his pledge to support human rights and to decry violators of democratic precepts. Given that South Korea is a "strategic ally" and given the investment the U.S. has sunk there, it is as obvious a place as any to start...
...outlined an ambitious program of social security reform, new housing and economic growth for the country, and he insisted to reporters that he is not interested in serving beyond the next eight years. Sources close to him say that he may want to establish an authoritarian but benevolent dictatorship rather like that of Francisco Franco's Spain, without becoming the geriatric embarrassment that Franco was in his last years...
...operating procedures of Marxist states usually follow a depressing logic. Marxism, with its incomparably oafish legerdemain, softens up the sanity by explaining that failure is success, and otherwise fulfilling George Orwell's expectations. The revolutionary "vanguard" clearing the way for the dictatorship of the proletariat develops into a "New Class" of privileged party officials and bureaucrats. The system runs by what the Soviets call blat- influence, clout, corruption. A new minority rule sets in. If it is not the dark, satanic will of Stalin, it has little to do with workers' wishes either. Although members of the ruling...