Word: dictatorship
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...European expatriate, I am watching with horror and disbelief as Europe is being transformed through left-wing ideology against the will of most Europeans. Europe is inexorably coming to an end. It is now nothing more than a socialist dictatorship governed by a political élite that is among the most corrupt in the world. What's happening in the E.U. today is not in accordance with the principles of democracy. Giorgio Corazza, ORANGE GROVE, SOUTH AFRICA...
Future Systems was founded in 1979 by Jan Kaplicky, a Czech émigré to Britain who fled Czechoslovakia 10 days after the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968. "I didn't have more time to live under a dictatorship," he says. As it would turn out, he also didn't have much interest in working under other name architects. After stints with Richard Rogers and then Norman Foster, both vanguard figures of British high tech, he decided to break out on his own. In 1989, Amanda Levete came on board as partner. Today the firm employs 30 people. In recent years...
...students after exhaustive background checks are now considered insufficient. Apparently the U.S. was being too lax by granting al-Dewachi only single-entry visas and forbidding him to leave the country for the first three years of his stay. Five years ago, under Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, the U.S. did not consider al-Dewachi enough of a security risk to deny him a visa. Yet now, with Iraq a democracy, the U.S. feels sufficiently threatened to nullify its former approvals and deny this legitimate student reentry. Worse, the only way al-Dewachi can receive an acceptable...
...years, Turkmenbashi (Father of the Turkmen) Saparmurat Niyazov kept the central Asian state of Turkmenistan under a bizarre and brutal dictatorship that fought dissent and infectious diseases simply by outlawing both. Niyazov's death from cardiac arrest in late December came as a shock to his 5 million subjects, who had never realized that "Presidents for Life" die, too. Now, six contenders are running in the first presidential election in 15 years scheduled...
...Report of the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture was commissioned in 2003 to create the most comprehensive list possible of those who were imprisoned and tortured for political reasons during the military dictatorship from September 1973 to March 1990. This mandate was vastly different from that of the first Chilean truth commission, The Rettig Report of 1991, which enumerated solely those who had been disappeared or murdered...