Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been hot. In an attack on Menon, Kripalani said: "I charge him with wasting the money of a poor starving nation. I charge him with the neglect of the defense of the country against the aggression of Communist China. I charge him with having lent his support to totalitarian regimes against the will of the people." Kripalani supporters have circulated a pamphlet titled "Krishna Menon-Danger to India" that calls Menon a "crypto-Communist...
...than one-third of Ghana's huge Volta River hydroelectric and aluminum plant project (the rest will be provided by the World Bank, Britain and the Ghanaian government), were tentatively allocated last summer, then pigeonholed in the face of Nkrumah's flirtation with Moscow, along with his totalitarian persecution of political opponents at home...
Excellence in the arts, he explained, is primarily the result of competition. while a totalitarian state "usually has a deleterious effect on art," a world of totalitarian states having the same concept of beauty, might produce a great artistic revival, he maintained. Friedrich added, "the would be particularly true if there had been more or less of an agreement that other forms of competition, such as war, were undesirable...
Even so, Galvâo's Anti-Totalitarian Front took the regime by surprise. Six of his agents hijacked a Portuguese airliner as it approached Lisbon from Casablanca, dumped thousands of anti-Salazar leaflets over the capital, then flew to Tangier. Had Galvao actually landed last week, he might have met little effective opposition. So suspicious of everyone is Salazar that his soldiers were issued machine guns without bolts and rifles without bullets; fighter planes were grounded with empty gas tanks. But the real threat to the regime came from what, in the world's most durable dictatorship...
...doctored them to suit Salazar. The Roman Catholic hierarchy, which has had its differences with Salazar, published a message cautioning Catholics not to vote for "Communists or their allies"-the label Salazar pins on all his opponents -but took pains nonetheless to dissociate the church from "the methods of totalitarian government...