Word: dictatorship
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...Spain, where opposition parties are banned by the regime, Communists have quietly begun to plan for the day when Generalissimo Francisco Franco dies and Western Europe's oldest dictatorship is replaced by more representative government. The Communists in Spain are probably the most disciplined and dedicated force on the political left. They have operated secretly inside the country and more openly outside...
Clearly the CIA considers the junta to be the lesser of two evils. Still, it rates the Chilean enterprise a failure since it ended in military dictatorship. Several years of dangerous, costly and now nationally divisive intervention in another country's internal politics might better have been avoided. Though Soviet propaganda blames the CIA for the Chilean coup and the death of Allende, Soviet intelligence analysts do not give the CIA any credit. The Russians think the fault lay with Allende himself for not being enough of a strongman. He temporized with constitutional processes when he should have disregarded...
...full text of the Catholic priests' charges against Thieu and his family, about 60 Catholics, Buddhists and journalists marched to prevent police from entering the printing plants. One newspaper proprietor burned 10,000 copies of an edition the police had ordered confiscated while a crowd shouted, "Down with dictatorship and corruption!" Such public displays would have been unthinkable only a few months...
...relieved at the restoration of order to be angry at the loss of their parliamentary liberties. Despite inflation, the middle class, which deserted Allende, can still manage to make ends meet. Many Chileans, even avid supporters of the coup, will concede that they are living under a dictatorship. But they see it as a necessary transition period and plead that, given enough time, they will come out of it in a uniquely Chilean...
...Labor Party of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson held only 298 of Parliament's 631 seats. Portuguese President António Spinola had no constitutional basis of power and held office at the pleasure of the group of young military officers who deposed the half-century-old dictatorship last spring. Belgium's coalition Cabinet was preoccupied by the linguistic differences that divide the country. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats last month saw the party's popularity drop from...