Word: dictatorship
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...privately with President Francisco Morales Bermúdez for almost three hours. She gently attempted to persuade her new hosts to slow the pace of the military buildup that had alarmed the Ecuadorians. This week she faces her sternest test-a three-day visit to Brazil, where the military dictatorship was outraged first by her husband's opposition to its plans to buy nuclear-fuel facilities from West Germany, and then by a State Department report citing human rights violations in Brazil...
...bloomed along the narrow streets and broad thoroughfares of Madrid. For the first time ever, politicians of all stripes, including the long-outlawed Communists, made campaign appearances last week over the air waves of the state-run television network, which had been created as an instrument of the Franco dictatorship. Across the country, nearly 6,000 candidates, vying for 557 parliamentary seats in the June 15 national election, took to the hustings to test the political preferences of people who for almost two generations had been taught not to choose but to obey...
...being used by some of Castro's agents as a base to export terrorism to Argentina, to Bolivia, to Brazil." When Frost responded that "Allende looks like a saint" compared with his U.S.-supported successor General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Nixon pointed at Frost and replied, "The right-wing dictatorship, if it is not exporting its revolution, if it is not interfering with its neighbors ... is of no security concern to us. It is of a human rights concern. A left-wing dictatorship, on the other hand-we find that they do engage in trying to export their subversion...
...nothing about what the millions of Argentine workers think. He quotes not one of the more than 10,000 political prisoners, and not a single relative of those hundreds who have "disappeared." Nor do we hear from any of the other thousands of victims of Videla's military dictatorship, which rules by terror-kidnaping, torture and murder...
...Soviet Union? A Latin American dictatorship? Not this time. The unpleasant scenario is being played out on the sandy plains and flat farm land of eastern North Carolina. Nine young black men and a white woman were convicted 41/2 years ago of fire-bombing a grocery store during racial disorders in the troubled river port of Wilmington. They were sentenced to terms totaling 282 years in prison. Last week, amid charges of perjury and coercion on both sides, the Wilmington Ten were back in a state courtroom, attempting to have the verdict overturned...