Word: strongmanism
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...These days, Uzbekistan is an independent country, though still essentially a one-party state. Its strongman President Islam Karimov reluctantly signed a military cooperation agreement with Moscow last year but refuses to allow Russian troops on Uzbek territory. Now, in a precarious balancing act, it has embraced a new ally: late last week the U.S. and Uzbekistan announced they had signed an agreement giving the U.S. "extended" use of Khanabad, the biggest air base in Central Asia and once the main staging post for the Soviet Union's push into Afghanistan...
...Korean cinema enjoyed a brief golden age in the 1960s, when the industry churned out loads of mostly light fare to entertain a nation struggling to pull itself out of poverty. But strongman Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered...
...TIME that Elian's name is under consideration by the foreign ministry as a possible participant. It is not clear, at this stage, whether sending Elian has been proposed to his father, but Juan Miguel Gonzalez is an enthusiastic Castro supporter and has allowed the boy to join the strongman in public on a number of recent occasions...
...happily ensconced with his playmates and family in his hometown of Cardenas. Initially, Castro made good on his promise not to turn the boy into a propaganda icon, and left him to reconstruct the pieces of his life in the sleepy coastal town. But the 75-year-old strongman appears to be finding the temptation to make propaganda around Elian too hard to resist - in July, he had the boy join him on the dais at a communist rally for the island's children. He also visited with Elian to congratulate him on completing first grade, and later inaugurated...
...current U.S. policy, squarely in the spotlight. And whereas many of the older generation had lived much of their lives expecting to simply sail back in and turn back the clock following some cataclysmic event that would see Castro overthrown, the reality is beginning to dawn that the aging strongman is more likely to choose his own retirement date, and that his regime won't necessarily retire along with him. And that's prompted growing concern in Washington that the longstanding embargo may actually be functioning to deny the U.S. influence over the shape of a post-Castro Cuba. Increasingly...