Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...events in modern times have inspired men to as great heroics as did the Spanish Civil War, fought in 1936-9 between those loyal to the five-year old democratic government and the fascist forces of General Franco determined to turn Spain into a totalitarian state. Barely had the Popular Front government been elected, bringing to power a coalition of Communists, Socialists, and other elements of the Left, than Franco started an army revolt originating in northern Africa and quickly extended throughout Spain. While Franco's Nationalist troops were substantially reinforced by elite troops sent from Hitler's Germany...
...tens of thousands of political prisoners. The peoples of Indochina will be unable to rebuild their war-ravaged countries, unable to enjoy the all but destroyed lands they refused to surrender to foreign invaders or their native henchmen. And as long as the United States continues to help impose totalitarian governments on people elsewhere in the world, sloganeering liberals interested only in Watergate--Nixon's much more limited, watered-down march toward totalitarianism at home--will sound like hypocrites and frauds...
...tens of thousands of political prisoners. The peoples of Indochina will be unable to rebuild their war-ravaged countries, unable to enjoy the all but destroyed lands they refused to surrender to foreign invaders or their native henchmen. And as long as the United States continues to help impose totalitarian governments on people elsewhere in the world, sloganeering liberals interested only in Watergate--Nixon's much more limited, watered-down march toward totalitarianism at home--will sound like hypocrites and frauds...
...dark land." To junior army officers throughout Portugal, soured by the nation's debilitating 13-year war against guerrillas in three African colonies, the messages could not have been clearer. After We Say Goodbye was an alert that this was the night the army would move against the totalitarian regime of Premier Marcello Caetano. "Dark land" meant that this was the moment to launch the coup. Thus began one of the few coups in which military officers threw out a totalitarian regime and declared their intention to establish a democratic government-instead of vice versa. In time, the shock...
...alike by those who have always borne their burdens, the working people of the world, that May Day stands for. This is year when it's easy to lose sight of that vision--when it's all most people can do to fight a different vision, one of rigid totalitarian control like those of Chile's new and Portugal's's overthrown dictatorship, like (on a much smaller, milder, and more hesitant scale) the illegal tactics President Nixon liked to avail himself of. May Day is especially important this year, because it reminds is that we are after something more...