Word: dictatorship
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Fonda charged that the United States is creating a "massive police state" by supporting the "unpopular and undemocratic dictatorship" of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Thieu...
...continue. Even if this struggle is remote from the people of the United States, we must not allow our government to increase or even continue its present aid to a regime that, by its very nature, demands war conditions and a police state to maintain an illegitimate and unpopular dictatorship...
Iran's universities, in fact, seem to operate on just the kind of system Harvard professors like to condemn in theory. They are under the tight control of the dictatorship; dissident professors are fired and sometimes tortured until they renounce their political views. Students are forced to study what the Shah considers his great achievements as a ruler, and their protests usually result in arrests or injuries...
...speeches, Ford argued that a Democratic landslide could produce a "legislative dictatorship" that might cause federal spending to "go out of sight." He further warned: "If we get the wrong kind of Congress, peace could be in jeopardy." Democratic National...
Caramanlis has been under pressure to deal more firmly with former members of the dictatorship. After the investigations, Papadopoulos is expected to be transferred to a mainland prison, probably before Nov. 17-the anniversary of last year's massacre and the date Greeks will vote for deputies to the 300-seat Parliament that the exiled colonel closed when he came to power. One of the candidates is Alexandros Panagoulis, 33, who was arrested in 1968 for trying to blow up Papadopoulos...