Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sympathy; so he took pains to present them as well-rounded, even conventional people. Plot is simply enough the story of two normal, albeit perverse, individuals who try to take advantage of the little people. Unnecessarily fearful our emotions will attach to the beautiful trapeze artist and her strongman lover, Browning keeps telling us how freaks are people like anyone else...
...from the university walked out of the assembly and boycotted the rest of the congress. After Iakovos went out of his way to praise Greece's past democratic political tradition, the country's military regime ordered newspapers to curtail their coverage of the congress. George Papadopoulos, the strongman of the ruling junta, pointedly failed to show up at the climactic banquet, pleading a sprained ankle. Archbishop Ieronymos, Primate of the Greek church, agreed to show up at the dinner only after it was made clear to him that he was the guest of honor...
...ceremony itself, the constitution is more show than substance: it does not necessarily mean the end of the military regime or, for that matter, even of mar tial law, under which Thailand has been ruled for a decade. Only the day before the ceremony, General Praphas Charusathien, 55, strongman of a regime in which he holds the posts of Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and army commander, had announced that martial law would remain in force, the new constitution notwithstanding; he also warned that any resumption of political activity could only benefit Communist subversion, which Thailand is fighting in several areas...
Though Nigerian Strongman Major General Yakubu Gowon insists that only military objectives are hit, the raids against civilians were, in fact, recently intensified to two-a-day strikes on all Biafran towns. During the six days I spent in Biafra, civilian bombing casualties totaled 300 dead by actual body count. I saw jets repeatedly release payloads on populated townships where not a single military installation was within range...
...Bucharest, a party commission attacked Rumania's late strongman Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died in 1965, as a Stalinist who used terror to keep in power in the 1950s. The commission charged his regime with handing down sentences without trials, of murders, abusive arrests, "rude fakes and transgression of the most elementary rules of law." Thus, Dej's successor as party boss, Nicolae Ceausescu, paved the way for a purge of the late Dej's Stalinist cronies. The first to go was a onetime Ceausescu rival, ex-Police Chief Alexandru Draghici, who was purged from the party...