Word: strongman
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...streets. Soldiers ransacked the manuscripts of Pablo Neruda. A folksinger was shot for entertaining the prisoners in Chile's national stadium, which had been converted into a concentration camp by the military regime. Meanwhile, the North American press pressed on; The Times wrote that Agosto Pinochet, Chile's new strongman, was "quiet and businesslike," "powerfully built," and presumably despite his predisposition towards repression, a man with a "sense of humor...
...Middle East's chronically unsuccessful suitor, Libyan Strongman Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, seems to need the services of a professional matchmaker. All his past efforts to join Libya with other Arab countries have failed. Now Libya's betrothal to Tunisia, which Gaddafi and Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba happily announced in mid-January, has apparently been broken...
...dominant tribes, Gowon, who belongs to the small Anga tribe, split Nigeria's four federal regions into twelve states. He allows them to handle their internal affairs but intervenes discreetly to make sure all tribes are consulted on local government decisions. Although Gowon rose to power as strongman of an army coup eight years ago, he believes that "you must bring all factions into the process, consult them, advise them, prod them, but above all, make them part of things. It is the only way to build a true nation...
...epicenter of protest is at the campus of Seoul National University, whose rebellious students helped topple the regime of former Strongman Syngman Rhee in 1960. What galvanized the students this time was the diplomatic furor created by the kidnaping, purportedly by CIA agents, of exiled former Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung from a hotel in Tokyo. At a rally last month, 400 students demanded an end to the terrorist rule of the CIA, the "whole truth" about the Kim abduction and restoration of press freedom...
...Saudi king long resisted calls by such firebrands as Libya's Strongman Muammar Gaddafi and Iraq's President Ahmed Hassan Bakr that the Arabs wield their "oil weapon" for political gains. But after Egypt and Syria invaded Israel last month, Feisal finally agreed to cut back the flow of oil. Later, when President Nixon announced that he would ask Congress to send Israel $2.2 billion worth of arms, Feisal exploded with rage and shut...