Word: ruling
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Special Torture. But there was considerable anxiety about how the new government might behave. In 1967, the United Front government ruled for nine turbulent months. On instructions from leftist ministers, the police stood aside while workers illegally picketed, and sometimes pillaged, their plants. In more than 1,000 instances, the workers subjected their helpless employers to a special Bengali torture-the gherao. They kept their superiors trapped in their offices, often without recourse to sanitary facilities, until they acceded to the often unreasonable union demands. Soon West Bengal was in a dangerous state of disorder, with its industry grinding toward...
Most Indian political experts believe that the United Front will behave somewhat better this time in order to keep the Prime Minister from reimposing President's Rule on West Bengal. That may be overly optimistic. In all likelihood, the Communist victory there and the process of political fragmentation elsewhere in India forebode a period of increasing instability and chaos...
...most significant move, however, was his offer to discuss constitutional reform with the opposition in the Democratic Action Committee, a loose alliance of eight conservative parties that have been promoting the anti-government campaign. Their demands include a return to the parliamentary system under which Pakistan was ruled before Ayub's bloodless takeover in 1958 and also the abolition of the present presidential election system. Within that Ayub-inspired framework, the President is chosen by 120,000 popularly elected "basic democrats." The opposition charges that the system is susceptible to government patronage and pressure and thus tends to perpetuate...
...that has pleased the leadership in Peking, the rea son is not hard to find: most of the sol diers in the People's Liberation Army are of peasant stock, and it is the peas ants who have been especially recalcitrant in the face of Peking's rule -even before the Cultural Revolution was ever launched. While the revolution focused on the cities, China's peasants enjoyed the unusual experience of being virtually unpoliced. Most of them took advantage of Peking's inattention to indulge in economic "crimes" of one sort or another, such as expanding...
Thus, for the first time in eleven years of martial law and rule by a firm if benevolent military oligarchy, last week Thais voted in a general election. The balloting was to choose 219 deputies for the lower house of Thailand's National Assembly. The election did not change the texture of the government of Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, a field marshal in the Royal Thai Army, nor did it appreciably crimp its powers. But in creating a legal opposition, it heralded a return to more representative and more responsive rule...