Word: strongmanism
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...last Friday night, the rumors of an imminent arrest began seeping out of Serbia. At about 2:30 the next morning, a white van loaded with special police units in stocking masks and jeans roared up to the leafy compound where the ex-strongman had been holed up since last fall. Hurling stun grenades, they burst past a knot of angry loyalists singing patriotic songs and vaulted the iron gates. (The Serbian army, which once strongly backed Milosevic, remained in its barracks...
...again--and this time it was not rebuffed. The crowds that had filled the streets outside his house had evaporated overnight. A police caravan arrived at the house, and other than a few harmless gunshots reportedly fired off by Milosevic's overwrought daughter, there was little drama. The ex-strongman was bundled into a car and zipped to Belgrade's central jail, a 10-minute ride from his house that took just three on the empty morning streets...
...problem not shared by his colleagues: that another strongman may move against him if he leaves town for too long...
...many ways, the AIDS-drugs issue was tailor-made for Castro, a strongman who harbors both an epic hostility to capitalism and a developed pharmaceutical industry. The Cuban leader once revered among Third World revolutionaries has become a rather lonely ideologue in the post-Cold War years, as the Marxists of yesteryear made their peace with globalizing capitalism faster than you could say International Monetary Fund. But the AIDS crisis has spawned a battle in which even the most resolutely capitalist governments of the poverty-stricken developing world see themselves ranged against the patents and profits of giant pharmaceutical corporations...
...implementation of measures designed to prevent Iraq from refurbishing its military or building weapons of mass destruction. To the hard-liners, that may look like going soft on Saddam at a time when they want to see more done to support efforts by Iraqi opposition groups to overthrow the strongman - a policy not favored by Powell, nor by Washington's allies in the region...