Word: disrespectfulness
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...think TIME'S lack of respect for the former Vice President of the United States, Mr. John Nance Garner, is shocking . . . I am a Republican, and I disagreed with the man when he was in office, but . . . this disrespect for a man who once held the second highest office in our land gets under my skin...
...chance. Six years of systematic destruction of Argentine civil rights took care of that. Harassed by police, barred from access to Dress and radio, the opposition was alowed only to hold open-air meetings. Balbin, the leading anti-Peronista, was arrested twice during the campaign for 'disrespect" to the President. To top things off, Peron imposed virtual martial law after last September's abortive army revolt. This lasted throughout the campaign, and was lifted only on election...
...longer intimidated. Perón is no longer dictator." A few weeks ago an Argentine would have been arrested for saying that kind of thing in public. In fact, Ricardo Balbin, the man who said it last week, already faced arrest on 19 different charges of disrespect for the President...
...packed the courts and universities with his stooges. Congress voted him absolute powers over his 17 million people, including the right to jail them for "disrespect" to any official from President to dogcatcher; but Perón used the powers sparingly. When he switched constitutions so that he could run for reelection, it became necessary to arrest a few opponents; more often he bullied obstinate critics into fleeing across the river to Uruguay, where they lapsed into total ineffectiveness...
Last week another Radical leader, Martín Michel Torino, co-owner of the closed opposition newspaper, El Intransigente, in Salta, was arrested for the same "crime": disrespect for public officials. The specific charge against Torino was insulting the police of Salta-no mean feat for a publisher whose newspaper has been shut down by order of the government since December...