Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slow Steps. Last year Panama and the U.S. signed an eight-point agreement in principle on how to proceed with the negotiations. Brigadier General Omar Torrijos, Panama's dictatorial but populist strongman, hopes for a "step-by-step and orderly process of demilitarization and neutralization of the canal." But the steps have been slow, and the two sides are still well apart...
Social Control. As Korea's uncontested strongman, Park believed from the beginning that without certain Eastern "modifications," Western democracy could only cause "indigestion" in Asia. In terms of the economy, this meant government encouragement of industry through such devices as underwriting foreign loans to business. It also involved strict supervision of labor to keep wages low and a heavy reliance on the powerful Korean Central Intelligence Agency (K.C.I.A.) as an instrument of social control. Founded in 1961 and employing an estimated 35,000 people, the K.C.I.A. has gained a reputation for brutality that, to judge from its victims, seems...
Meanwhile, the government was giving every indication that it was not even prepared to exercise firm control. Most unsettling was the disappearance of Strongman López Rega early in the week. Just as the crisis was mounting, he announced that he had not been feeling too well lately and was going on a brief holiday. Since then, various rumors have put him in Spain, Italy, Brazil and the U.S.; he has also been reported to be still in Buenos Aires or on an air force base near the city. Wherever he was, there was a growing suspicion among Argentines...
...first year still continue. True, midnight arrests and unexplained detentions are rarer now than immediately after the coup, and summary shootings have stopped, but terror has become institutionalized. It operates in the hands of DINA, which has an estimated membership of 1,000 and is responsible only to Military Strongman Augusto Pinochet Ugarte. DINA (Dirección de Informaciones Nacional) maintains centers for interrogation where dozens of suspects are brutally tortured as a matter of routine. Says a senior foreign diplomat in Santiago: "With the single exception of detainees released [meaning those interrogated and exiled], I defy you to find...
...that began 25 years ago this month, there are widespread fears of a new attack. North Korea's hard-lining Communist President Kim Il Sung, newly returned from a conference in Peking last month, increased Southern fears by declaring: "We are prepared for war." South Korea's strongman President Park Chung Hee responded with equal bellicosity, warning that the South is also ready for a fight. In this policy, Park has the support of even the opposition politicians. At a special session of the National Assembly, they joined in unanimous support of a government-sponsored resolution "to crush...