Word: dictatorship
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...result, an estimated 65% of Britons went to the polls and 17,378,581 of them said yes to Europe. Even in Northern Ireland, where the Rev. Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church had warned that "a vote for the Common Market is a vote for ecumenism, Rome, dictatorship and anti-Christ," the pro-EEC cause won by a 52.1% majority. For Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who had staked his political future on the referendum, the vote was a resounding personal triumph. Indeed, London's pro-Labor Daily Mirror suggested that Wilson may now become "the most powerful...
...were a Greek and I believed in democracy I would be so very happy that my country, as a result of the blunders of the military dictatorship in Cyprus, that the government was overthrown that would be down on my knees praying to whoever they pray...
...situation is very tough to predict. But we know the subjective view of the Portuguese people. What remains to be seen is whether the pluralistic, moderate majority is capable of organizing itself against a hardcore, externally trained minority dictatorship...
...carrying soldiers, carrying guns. Portugal had been fighting a guerilla war since 1961 in Angola, a Portuguese colony since the 1500's. That war had one good result: the young Portuguese soldiers sent to Angola came back disgusted at the mud and sand and at Portugal's semi-feudal dictatorship which was wasting them there in a futile holding action. They overthrew that government in 1974. But although the new government was willing and even anxious to give Angola up, the three factions of the Angolan guerilla movement still hadn't formed a coalition which could take the government...
...fabric of society, fomented, encouraged and forced on its way by a leadership too incompetent or too lacking in resolution to provide the conditions in which we can avoid-in five years if we stick to our present course-finding ourselves at the mercy of some cheap dictatorship, whether of the right or left." Harold Wilson would doubtless conclude that Professor Clegg has been attending too many cocktail parties in that gossipy square mile of London...