Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very traditions of a strong power do not allow the leaders of totalitarian states to react directly to pressure exerted against them. At the same time, boycotts weaken realistically useful contacts and diminish the number of levers that can be used to apply pressure in the future...
...Iranian Communist Party. The CIA probably replaced one emerging dictator by another but in the long run by doing so it increased hatred of the United States. Kermit Roosevelt would have been saddened. The operation begun with moral fervor to save the Iranians for democracy resulted in a totalitarian regime which crushed the very freedom the coup of 1953 was supposed to create...
...think there is no liberal tradition. For 60 years our country has been a totalitarian government. Our tradition is not liberalism but totalitarianism. Some people understand the need [for liberalism], but the whole system is so conservative, there is little opportunity for change...
...overriding ambition was to rid China of all traces of its decadent past, while at the same time transforming the Chinese national character. His instrument was a vast totalitarian party and police apparatus that reaches into every facet of daily life, that controls what a Chinese can read, where he can travel, how he should live. Despite the omnipresence of this Orwellian machinery, many practices of the feudal past are observed. In the privacy of their homes, there are many peasant families who still pray to Kuan-yin, the goddess of mercy, and burn incense to their ancestors. Ouija boards...
...stance was not inconsistent with views he had expressed all along. He landed the job, in fact, after writing an article for Commentary magazine urging Americans to stand up for their principles and talk back to their totalitarian detractors. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told Moynihan that he wished he had written the article himself. Notes Moynihan: "He said I would know this was the highest compliment he could pay another...