Word: dictatorship
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While we regret the violent murder of President Park Chung Hee of South Korea, we welcome the end of his rule, a dictatorship of the worst stripe marked by ruthless suppression of political opposition and civil rights. The end of Park's reign marks the first real chance for the liberalization of the Korean government since then-General Park seized power in the early...
...high price for economic progress: wages remained low, hours were long and factory workers had little, if any, union protection. Park brooked no opposition, either from his colleagues or his citizenry; he even altered the constitution with three "revitalizing" amendments that in effect turned the presidency into a near dictatorship. But not even the efficiency of his omnipresent Korean Central Intelligence Agency could prevent the growth of an opposition that included Christian church leaders as well as restless students. Park's repression proved embarrassing to Washington, especially after the election of Jimmy Carter and his emphasis on human rights...
...part of human nature, and such wickedness comes from our enemies. Considering the road that we have chosen, a road that is opposed to the superpowers it is normal that the servants of foreign interests prick me with their poison and hurl all kinds of calumnies against me. . . Dictatorship is the greatest sin in the religion of Islam. Fascism and Islamism are absolutely incompatible. Fascism arises in the West, not among people of Islamic culture. . . Fascism would be possible only if the Shah were to return or if Communism were to take over...
...Dictatorship, like misery, loves company. Right-wing military rulers have enjoyed their longest runs side by side in Latin America...
...internal enemies. To wit: the Greek Colonels, who were America's sons of bitches, and Sukarno of Indonesia, who was Moscow's and who was ousted in an anti-Communist military coup in 1966. Even today the Soviet Union is hard pressed to save the tottering Marxist dictatorship of President Noor Mohammed Taraki from an Islamic rebellion in Afghanistan...