Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFTER a half century of virtually uninterrupted military rule, a hint of democracy has finally penetrated Argentina's totalitarian armor President Raul Alfonsin's government, succeeding a brutal military regime, offers many Argentines what it ought to offer the Reagan Administration a chance to make a Latin American nation survive and prosper And, perhaps more importantly for the U.S. Alfonsin has given the Administration a plum chance to put its money where its mouth to really work for liberty and justice...
...activity that leads to unpleasant investigation, and sometimes to forced relocation, is unauthorized contact with foreigners. Uniformed policemen armed with pistols stand guard over Peking's residential compounds for foreigners to keep unapproved Chinese visitors out. Observes Michel Oksenberg of the University of Michigan: "The previous totalitarian system under the domination of a single dictator is yielding to an authoritarian system with a collective leadership at the top. The instruments of totalitarian control have yet to be dismantled...
...matters not whether a nation as small and insignificant as El Salvador becomes communist or partially democratic. Yet to ignore ideology is to care little for one's own values. The human rights situation in Communist nations is appalling, as it is in many other countries. But no totalitarian regime has ever permitted a change of power, while many authoritarian government have done so--Argentina, Spain, and Greece are prominent examples. A communist El Salvador would never allow true elections; a formerly authoritarian El Salvador is holding them right...
...Reagan Administration was concerned with human rights. But publicly denouncing friends on questions of human rights while minimizing the abuse of those rights in the Soviet Union and other totalitarian countries was at an end. El Salvador, vital though the preservation of its democratic future is, represents a symptom of dangerous conditions in the Americas?Cuban adventurism, Soviet strategic ambition...
...does not sound like promising materal for comedy. But Fo has turned the event into fine and unlikely totalitarian farce. The central character is a sort of derelict loon who is a professional impostor. Fo took the part himself in the original Italian production, and, obviously, the Fool is essentially Fo. As wonderfully played at the Arena by Richard Bauer, the Fool behaves like Karl Marx masquerading as Dr. Hugo Hackenbush. He is what the Russians call a yurodivy, an elaborately disguised truth seeker, an anarchist-individualist working under deep cover...