Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also on the road: anti-Red Strongman General Phoumi Nosavan and his protege, Premier Boun Oum, who had gone to Bangkok seeking economic aid to bolster their challenge to U.S. policy in Laos...
...magic of the word that dictators use it to justify their own brand of one-man rule. Indonesia's Sukarno and Nepal's King Mahendra call it "guided democracy," Guinea's Touré has "total democracy," Egypt's Nasser his "presidential democracy." The strongman most entitled to claim "democracy" for an essentially undemocratic system may well be Pakistan's benevolent dictator, President Mohammed Ayub Khan. His catch phrase: "basic democracies...
...country's poverty-stricken peasants. But after four years, Haiti's 3,750,000 Negroes are still no better off (annual per capita income: less than $100), and the Duvalier regime has turned into the traditional model of a dictatorship, gobbling up graft and relying on strongman methods to keep itself in power. All the while, Duvalier, who in the past four years has received some $30 million in U.S. aid to keep his people from starving, angrily insists that Washington send him still more dollars...
...democracy was agreed to by all factions. If all now goes well, there will emerge a Swiss-style Council of State, and free elections will be held next year. Agreement on all this was reached by the opposition and by President Joaquin Balaguer and the army's strongman. General Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echavarria...
Nehru has been trying to get Portugal to pull out of Goa (pop. 700,000) since the British withdrew from India in 1947* Unlike France, which reluctantly quit its last Indian possessions in 1954, Portugal's Strongman Antonio de Oliveira Salazar insists that the 451-year-old colony, like his country's other overseas possessions, is a Portuguese "province." After breaking off diplomatic relations with the Portuguese in 1955, Nehru declared loftily: "History will remove them...