Word: strongmanism
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Swarms in Bazaars. Strongman Daoud was aware that his strict Moslem people might be tempted to rash acts by their religious hostility to Communism, by the tales told by the constant stream of refugees from nearby Russian Turkistan, and by the age-old assumption among Afghans that anything to the north is barbaric. As arrival day approached, the bazaars swarmed with secret police, who questioned strangers and put suspicious persons under house arrest for the duration of the Russians' visit. Along the three-mile route from the airport into the capital, families were warned that any untoward incident might...
With a cheerful clanking of governmental wrenches, Revolutionary President Pedro Aramburu last week unbolted some more of the undemocratic machinery put together over a decade by ex-Dictator Juan Perón. One dramatic decree returned the famed newspaper La Prensa to its original owners. Another dissolved the strongman's Peronista Party...
...dismantling Peron's works meant less freedom for a few of the strongman's collaborators, it meant a welcome extra measure of freedom for the majority of Argentines. President Aramburu abolished Peron's most oppressive legal tool, the State Security Law that for ten years provided pretexts for arresting the dictator's enemies. And having closed up the hated, Subsecretariat of Press. Peron's main propaganda mill. Aramburu started news flowing freely out of the government once again...
Egypt's Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser last week defended his purchase of arms from the Communists, denied that he intends to start a war with Israel, and behaved like a man convinced that his spoon is long enough to sup with the devil...
Colombia's backlands blood feud between Liberals and Conservatives goes on, only partly muffled by the iron censorship of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Last week, from Strongman Rojas himself, came a communique on the fighting. In one of his rare press interviews, he told the Chicago Daily News's John B. McDermott that this year the struggle has cost 2,000 or more lives...