Word: strongmanism
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...Aquino why Filipinos hanker for another strongman so soon after Marcos' departure, and she demonstrates her tolerance: "The problem with some of our people is that they would like to have the best of both worlds. They would like me to have some dictatorial powers, with everybody else living under a democracy...
Saddam's first venture into subversive politics came in 1956 when, as a new member of the Baath Party, he participated in an abortive coup against King Faisal II. The task was completed two years later by military strongman Abdul Karim Kassem. When the Baathists fared no better under the new regime, Saddam was tapped by the party in 1959 to assassinate Kassem. That attempt also failed, but Saddam emerged a hero as stories circulated of how he had a companion dig a bullet from his leg with a penknife, then to Syria disguised as a Bedouin...
Early this year, Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega was forced to take refuge in the Vatican Embassy when the heat...
Early Friday afternoon, Peruvian strongman Jose Luis Noriega showed he could stand the heat much better than his authoritarian namesake, spearheading his 17th-ranked San Diego men's tennis team's 5-3 victory over 13th-ranked Harvard in the sweltering 90-degree bakery of Indian Wells, Calif...
...opportunity when he sees one: Panama's Manuel Antonio Noriega. U.S. immigration officials suspect that the 47 aliens were ultimately headed for New York City's Chinatown and were customers of a lucrative passport-for-sale racket run for several years by Noriega and his cronies. If the deposed strongman was truly a "people-smuggling" kingpin as a sideline to his alleged drug-trafficking business, he was simply cashing in on the upper niche of an industry that is booming at every level. In March federal agents in Atlanta raided an Eastern Airlines flight twice in two days, seizing...