Word: dictatorship
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...dilemma, after eight years of military dictatorship, is that the more he tries to eradicate the Bhutto legend, the more powerful it becomes. Many Pakistanis are still bitter that Zia allowed Prime Minister Bhutto's body to be buried without a member of the family present. When news of Shahnawaz's death reached Pakistan, thousands went to the Bhutto home in Karachi to pay their respects. People burned stacks of an Urdu-language newspaper that suggested Shahnawaz may have died from alcohol and drugs. In Sind province, most business came to a standstill. Some defied the ban on entering Sind...
...eloquent and direct. Today we saw a side of Ratzinger that was very different from the unifying figure who so gracefully and humbly eulogized the Pope. The message inside St. Peter's was clear: the truth of Catholic Church teaching is absolute, and its pastors must guard against "a dictatorship of relativism" that dominates modern society. An aide to a European voting Cardinal was not convinced: "It's what a lot of Cardinals in there want to hear, but it's not the right message at this moment in the Church's history." Later, I was chatting with National Catholic...
...group charged that the proceeds of Unocal’s pipeline project “fuel a brutal military dictatorship that has committed systematic rape, ethnic cleansing, and imprisonment of over a thousand political prisoners...
...even if Auschwitz was beyond the power of human comprehension, the unscrupulous brutality of the Nazis was openly recognizable." Then the Chancellor noted that more than 50,000 Soviet prisoners of war also died in the Bergen area. "Germany bears the historical responsibility for the atrocities of the Nazi dictatorship. This responsibility expresses itself in the shame which can never expire...
Asked what South Africa requires today, Cape Businessman Jannie Momberg replies, "It may sound crazy, but what we need for the next ten years is enlightened dictatorship. Not for the black population, but for the whites. I think we're going to have to force through certain things against the whites for the sake of the country." If he were the President, says Momberg, "I'd bring Chief Buthelezi into my Cabinet. I'd scrap the bloody three-way Parliament and bring the whites, the Indians and the coloreds into one body, and then I'd look for a federal...