Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Sensitive Point. Amnesty's weapons are moral suasion strengthened with a potent brew of publicity. This is the kind of pressure, says President Peter Benenson, 45, that hits totalitarian regimes at their "most sensitive point, their public image, their trade image, their tourist image." By publicizing Belov in the British press, Amnesty forced the Russians to acknowledge his fate. Izvestia accused Amnesty of "presumption and arrogance in suggesting that a Western psychiatrist" be allowed to examine the prisoner...
...fantasy, he said, depends on the hydrogen bomb. And because of the bomb "a totalitarian system"--composed of the AEC, the CIA, and the Pentagon--"dedicated to the welfare of its totalitarian weapons," has been "superimposed on our democratic system...
...even expanding and institutionalizing -- the policy of intervention which it applied to the Dominican Republic. At a meeting of the O.A.S. foreign ministers last week, Secretary of State Rusk proposed the formation of a regional "peace-keeping force", an Inter-American army designed to "safeguard the democratic process against totalitarian takeover...
Continued intervention by the U.S. -- whether by unilateral invasion, or under the cover of a regional peace-keeping force -- will only hasten the "totalitarian takeovers" which the Administration is pledged to prevent. Our Dominican policy has convinced Latin Americans that the U.S. will back right-wing civilian or military regimes if there is a possibility that a new government would have communist collaboration...
...appalled at the short memory of those who forget the price of appeasing totalitarian regimes. I congratulate you on your thoughtful Essay, in which you distinguish between those who sincerely seek the right to dissent from Government policies and those lawless zealots who, by their "monopoly on humanitarianism," arbitrarily define God-given morality and seek to attain their ends by Machiavellian civil disobedience...