Word: dictatorship
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Alfonsin, recognizing a severe challenge to his 40-month-old democratic rule, quickly choppered back to Buenos Aires. Soon government-controlled television channels were flashing an urgent message: "Democracy or dictatorship. Everyone come to the Congress at 5 p.m." Labor leaders, human- rights activists and virtually the entire civilian political establishment quickly packed the halls of Congress, while a throng of some 100,000 massed outside. When the President defiantly proclaimed before the Congress, "Democracy is not negotiable," the chamber erupted in applause. After his 15-minute speech, Alfonsin appeared on a balcony and cried, "Thank you for defending...
Evolutionists are trying to maintain a kind of dictatorship in our schools that allows for nothing but one theory and denies students the right to think for themselves. Evolutionists are un-American and are afraid that if intelligent design is discussed, students might take more interest in God than in science...
Unlike many of Africa's worst famines, Niger's predicament has not been caused by war or dictatorship. The poor, landlocked nation, whose population has doubled over the past quarter-century, is primarily a victim of its own geography. Situated in the Sahel, a dry, scrubby area along the southern edge of the Sahara that is vulnerable to drought, Niger endured a lack of seasonal rains last year followed by a devastating plague of locusts that destroyed most of the crops in the region. Add the food shortages in neighboring Burkina Faso, Mali and Mauritania, and the WFP says more...
...Doctrine of the Faith meant that heads would roll. Would there be more like Thomas Reese, the open-minded editor of the Jesuit magazine America, whose departure was apparently sealed with Benedict's election? When would the new Pope tear into the ecclesiastic "filth" inside his church and the "dictatorship of relativism" outside it that he had diagnosed preconclave? Benedict's first 100 days have offered no definitive answers, but occasional modest indicators--plus a frank give-and-take with some of his alpine hosts on Day 98--showed a progress of the man into the office and suggested that...
...already pushing back on this. They all hate it," said a U.S. embassy official familiar with the drafting process. Jawad al-Malaki, a Shi'ite committee member and adviser to Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, calls the Sunni approach a nonstarter, warning that it could lead to a new dictatorship. Meanwhile, the U.S. is trying to convince the Sunnis that federalism is in their interest. "If you had the kind of system the Sunnis want, what you'd probably get is a Shi'a Prime Minister appointing a Shi'a Islamist to go run Anbar [a mainly Sunni province where...