Word: strongmanism
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...possible scenarios in the ensuing months; both focus on the left because rightist forces at present are completely scattered and discredited. One scenario is a relatively quick disintegration of the troika, with Gonçalves as the likely loser and the mercurial Saraiva de Carvalho emerging as a new strongman. Despite his popularity with the radical masses, the charismatic boss of the security forces would polarize discontent; he could only govern by imposing the kind of repressive measures the April 25 revolution supposedly abolished for good. Cunhal's party might be forced back into the opposition if that came...
...best damn jail in Europe," boasted erstwhile Greek Strongman George Papadopoulos in 1968, brushing off reports that under his rule, thousands of Greek political prisoners had been held in Athens' Korydallos prison. Last week Papadopoulos himself, after seven months in Korydallos, became the principal defendant in a mass trial at the prison. Along with 19 other former members of the ousted military junta, the ex-dictator was charged with acts of high treason and insurrection that had subjected Greece to 7½ years of dictatorship, from 1967 to 1974. The maximum penalty for insurrection: death by firing squad...
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...