Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subsequent outcry about totalitarian executive-judicial cabals was repeated and intensified when Reverend Moon protested his treatment before the Hatch subcommittee on June 26--this time charges of racism were working for, not against, the religious community...
...USSR is nasty towards dissidents, true. And the U.S., through its backing of totalitarian regimes, is responsible for the oppression of thousands of dissidents in countries like South Africa, El Salvador and Chile. Neither of these cases, however, is remotely connected to the issue of nuclear arms negotiations...
...Administration justifies its own terrorism mainly by arguing that the Nicaraguan regime, because of its quasi-totalitarian nature, is illegitamate and a threat to our security. But if we are to preach the principle of national self-determination and the need to ensure civilized behavior, we cannot do it arbitrarily. We cannot mine harbors in one section of the world because we dislike one nation's regime, and then express outrage when our embassies are bombed in a different regime someone else happens to dislike...
...from being the totalitarian state depicted by State Department spokesmen, these professors and administrators describe Nicaragua as a beleaguered country engaged in a noble experiment but threatened by U.S. backed invaders. Should Nicaragua be forced to fight for its survival, the professors say, it may well become a military state--out of necessity, not out of ideological preference...
...because American made military goods and computers are helping the white minority government enforce apartheid. Damon A. Silvers '86, a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee and the Endowment for Divestiture, charged that SYE, a small, radical Trotskyism group, was using the apartheid issue "for their own sectarian, totalitarian ends." Silver added that Black workers in South Africa approve of divestiture as a way of ending apartheid...