Word: strongmanism
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...nations-Britain, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and the U.S.-gathered this week for the fourth meeting of the Baghdad Pact Council. Among those assembled in Ankara's still-unfinished Parliament Building were Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Iraq's durable ex-Premier and Strongman Nuri asSaid, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, representing the nonmember U.S. as an observer. Presiding as host was small (5 ft. 6 in., 156 Ibs.), chipmunk-cheeked Adnan Menderes, Premier of Turkey, whose driving force has animated the Baghdad Pact from the outset, kept it alive when it was threatened...
From the beginning of his strongman career in 1948, Perez Jiménez believed the reverse. "My country," he liked to say, "is not ready for democracy." He took the profits of Venezuela's oil-fed prosperity, lavished them on jobmaking monuments, public buildings, superhighways, military officers' clubs. Although he left the country's illiterate peasants and day laborers in hovels, he perched a luxury hotel, a glittering restaurant and an eye-popping skating rink on top of a mountain, connected them to Caracas and the sea with a soaring system of cable cars, then started boring...
...scene of a strange mixture of wild celebration and savage fighting. Cheering crowds ran through the streets waving banners and screaming "Libertad!" at the top of their lungs. They raided the offices of the pro-Pérez Jiménez newspaper El Heraldo, ransacked the building where the strongman had been declared winner of the plebiscite. They burst into the homes of the strongman and his officials, carried off furniture and set fires. Thirsting for revenge against Pérez Jiménez' Security Police, they stormed through the narrow streets leading to the three-story police barracks...
VENEZUELA Strongman's Troubles
...after day, knotsof rioting students raced through downtown Caracas, burning cars and chanting "Down with Pérez Jiménez !" Petitions circulated, signed by nearly 1,000 top-rank businessmen, professional men and artists, demanding an end to the police state. Against the demonstrators, the cops used the strongman's best brand of brutal force. But despite hundreds of arrests, school closings and screams of pain echoing through Security Police headquarters, Pérez Jiménez could not still the civilian unrest. At week's end reports filtered from Miratlores Palace that the officers who helped...