Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With these ringing phrases, Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, 31, last April unleashed what he calls a "People's Revolution." Designed to expand his military dictatorship into a nationwide grass-roots movement, it so far has spawned more than 400 "people's committees" in villages, towns, factories and schools-and more are being formed daily. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn visited Libya and cabled this assessment of Gaddafi's most recent efforts to transform his oil-rich but backward nation...
...pilot last month, Lon Nol declared a "state of danger" and assumed full dictatorial powers, which did little to increase his popularity among war-weary Cambodians. U.S. officials argued that Lon Nol should get rid of his younger brother, Lon Non, who had become the regime's unofficial strongman. Last week Lon Nol bowed to pressure and accepted his brother's resignation, but the gesture means little, since Lon Non is expected to stay on as the ailing President's closest adviser...
UNRAVELING the modern Arab mind on its own territory proved a difficult task for the trio of veteran TIME correspondents who reported the bulk of material for this week's cover story on Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi and the complex politics of the Arab world. Fortunately, all three are experienced in the lore and ways of the Middle East...
...toppled in a 1963 coup that had active U.S. encouragement. Cambodia has the somewhat mystical Lon Nol, paralyzed on his left side as the result of a 1971 stroke, and his younger brother Lon Non, a vain and ruthless army general. Lon Non is now the regime's strongman, having won a power struggle with a rival whom most U.S. officials still regard as the only effective administrator in Cambodia, Lieut. General Sisowath Sirik Matak...
...this week in Panama City. The meeting almost certainly will be used to air a variety of Latin American grievances, such as Argentina's demand for the Falkland Islands and Guatemala's demand for British Honduras. But the noisiest grievances will presumably come from the host. Panamanian Strongman Omar Torrijos calls the Canal Zone "a tumor that must go through the operating room...