Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event of a tragedy like that of Flight 007, including the admission of responsibility and the undertaking of steps to ensure that it never happens again. For its part, the Soviet Union is simply "lying-openly, brazenly and knowingly. It is the face of a ruthless totalitarian state." Ovinnikov, declaring the session "unjustifiable," proceeded to read the TASS account of the episode to delegates...
...fact are calling for a "nonviolent" settlement to the fighting, the four have close ties with some factions of the Nicaraguan opposition, including the guerrillas, and might be able to hold out for terms that could end the fighting: a halt in the Sandinistas' current efforts to establish totalitarian control over the country, and elections leading to a genuinely pluralistic government...
...past. The "ideal cities" of Leonardo da Vinci or Etienne-Louis Boullée, although devoid of people, were at least images of fantastic beauty. The modern future, as imagined by Antonio Sant Elia in 1914, Ludwig Hilberseimer in 1928 and Le Corbusier in 1934, has a nightmarish, totalitarian quality, akin to George Orwell's 1984 foreboding of a boot in the face. It seems incredible that many of the most talented and renowned designers in the Aspen tent had once believed in and fought for these visions...
...imply that the Sandinistas may have to negotiate a political accommodation with the contras along the lines of the negotiated power sharing that some leftists in El Salvador are seeking. Some U.S. officials would like to see the eventual collapse of the Managuan government, which has become increasingly totalitarian in its domestic policies, and increasingly unpopular. Certainly that is what the Sandinistas believe is the main Administration motive. Said Ramirez: "If he could do it, Reagan would finish us off with a neutron bomb. But he can't, so he's using the contras instead." For its part...
...telling the truth about the Spartacus Youth League, Michael Anderson invited the predictable, totalitarian wrath of this "workers" vanguard" of spoiled children. In their May 10 offensive, they call Anderson a "cold war liberal," a "take-leftist," a "self-proclaimed Marxist," a "plain hard," an "apologist for the real Stalinists," and most damning of all, a "Friend...