Word: strongman
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...demonstrations are ostensibly being held to collect signatures demanding a reform of the country's system of indirect elections. In reality, the gatherings have allowed Koreans to air with new vehemence their long-standing complaints against Chun's strongman rule...
Meanwhile, NATO commander Bernard Rogers said yesterday there is "indisputable evidence" at least one fatal bombing was the work of a terrorist network set up by the Libyan strongman...
President Reagan once called him the "little dictator who went to Moscow," but when Daniel Ortega strolls around Managua with his two small sons in tow, he looks anything but the strongman. No tassles and epaulets for him, no holster around the waist, no stretch Mercedes. Hatless, in a black T shirt and khakis, Ortega could be any Latin American father except for the security contingent tailing him. Whether by design or by nature, he operates in public like a man of the people. When he travels by car, he is usually behind the wheel, and the car is usually...
Exactly. Not every deposed "strongman" and dictatorial Alldaddy ends up as shattered as Lear on the heath. Napoleon was comfortable enough. He had a girlfriend called Rosebud and spent much of his day soaking in the tub. But no doubt a peculiar loneliness descends upon the autocrat condemned to live out his days in one of the upstairs rooms, like a mental case in the family. He is the Wizard of Oz, bereft of his wonder machine...
...home province of Ilocos Norte. Only when the Aquino government refused to let him stay in the Philippines did he accept President Reagan's invitation to come to the U.S. The Aquino government last week acted to restrict Marcos' future travels. It revoked the passports of the former strongman and his entourage, making it difficult for them to leave the U.S. to avoid legal scrutiny...