Word: dictatorship
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...backers in Athens, the Secretary of State did not disguise his relief at the defeat of Makarios, whom he had long regarded as a mercurial, left-leaning troublemaker. By his refusal to denounce the coup, Kissinger seemed to tilt toward Sampson and the military rulers. Then, when democracy replaced dictatorship in Greece, and Turkey switched from being an aggrieved neighbor to an often brutal occupier of Cyprus, Kissinger shifted his stance in favor of Ankara. Throughout the episode, in the metaphor of Author Stern's title, the U.S. backed "the wrong horse...
...democracy fared well. Not, however, in South Africa, where the government of Prime Minister John Vorster cracked down harder than ever upon a restless but dispirited black majority and banned or arrested many of the country's leading voices of dissent. But in Spain, after four decades of repressive dictatorship, more than 20 million voters turned out peacefully to accomplish what Spanish newspapers called "a triumph of moderation." Parties of both the far left and far right were rejected in favor of a middle-of-the-road government headed by Premier Adolfo
Your peace plan rests on the naive assumption that there is a continuity of policy in the Arab states. Today's government espousing peaceful coexistence is likely to be replaced by a volatile military dictatorship bent on a holy crusade to destroy Israel...
...what the blacks want for Pretoria is not majority rule, but black rule. They're not against dictatorship; they just want...
...Iran remains a one-party state and in fact a one-man dictatorship," TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn reported last week after a visit to Tehran. "But in a few months the police-state atmosphere has altered drastically to a mood of vastly greater individual freedom and relaxation. Among knowledgeable Iranians it is taken for granted that the liberalization was at least partly in response to the Carter campaign. The Shah apparently feels he has a better chance to buy American military hardware if he burnishes his image...