Word: dictatorship
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...examine its communist past. That may be about to change. "A struggle is going on over how Germans will think about the G.D.R. in the future," says Knabe. "Either it was a strange country with complete social security and no unemployment and kindergarten for everyone; or it was a dictatorship that killed 1,000 people at the border, forced more than 4 million to flee, and jailed tens of thousands...
...necessarily the complete success Bush may have had in mind. In citing Gaddafi as a model, Rice has signaled the Administration's priority for security over the cause of freedom that both Gaddafi and Bush love to talk about. Even though Gaddafi has done little to loosen his dictatorship, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac, among other statesmen, have already visited Libya to signal the West's pleasure. President Bush, or his successor, could be next to visit the leader in his tent...
...glimpse of the pitch, and old men, eager to visit the trophy case - and I converted. While, over the years, my view of the Spanish Civil War has grown more nuanced, my view of Barça has grown ever more romantic. During the era of the Franco dictatorship, Barça was the lone place where the Catalans could shout in their own language and denounce the authoritarian regime. No government would dare challenge 100,000 men in the throes of fandom. Franco understood that the Catalan people needed a place to vent their frustration...
Along the way they join forces with a flock of talking birds and build a “perfect” city in the clouds. Pisthetairos and Euelpides’ heavenly abode ultimately devolves into a dictatorship, and Pisthetairos commandeers sufficient power to depose Zeus as king of the gods...
...years, Opus Dei has been a rumor magnet. Successful and secretive, it has been accused of using lavish riches and carefully cultivated clout to do everything from propping up Francisco Franco's Spanish dictatorship to pushing through its founder's premature sainthood to planting conservative minions in governments from Warsaw to Washington. Brown's treatment of the group had seemed to represent an untoppable high-sewage mark--that is, until the movie trailer appeared. Says Juan Manuel Mora, director of Opus Dei's communications department in Rome: "Reading a print version is one thing. Seeing the color images is another...