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...directive telling their cadres how to interpret the revolution that swept across Eastern Europe last year, the result of the subversion of socialism by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. In the Arab world several newspapers pointedly reminded oppressive regimes that tyranny could not be maintained forever and that strongmen in the region should take heed...
After winning independence from Britain, the fledgling United States established a democracy that reflected the character of the colonizers. Simon Bolivar and other Latin American revolutionaries tried to emulate the American Constitution, but their carefully crafted documents were quickly subverted by strongmen. When Augustin de Iturbide, Mexico's George Washington, assumed power in 1822, for example, he immediately had himself crowned Emperor. The Great Experiment never took firm root in Mexico or the rest of Latin America, causing a great deal of misunderstanding that persists to this...
Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka is the most indecisive of strongmen. In May he overthrew Fiji's Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra, but quickly turned authority over to a civilian-dominated council. Two weeks ago the colonel seized power ! once more. But early last week he had second thoughts yet again. The colonel released Bavadra from prison and began talks aimed at restoring civilian government. Rabuka was responding in part to an appeal from Queen Elizabeth II that the former British colony not quit the Commonwealth...
...whether the Attorney General will be able to investigate Noriega fully. If it were not for Latin American strongmen, civil or military, we would be speaking English from the Rio Grande to Patagonia. We have been investigated like all Latin American public figures by the agencies of the most powerful country in the world, and there has not been a shred of evidence against us. If there had been any, I would not be here. Therefore the Attorney General can call anyone he wants to present evidence...
Alfonsin recognized that permitting loyal opposition would safeguard his government more effectively than repression. It is a lesson too often lost on Alfonsin's counterparts in other Third World nations, such as Chilean President Pinochet. The United States, for its part, should realize that support for rightist strongmen who do not tolerate peaceful opposition seldom invites accomplishments as stirring as that of the Argentinian president...