Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forge, the commission could not agree on whether the new system should consist of a "counterfeit-resistant" Social Security card or a new kind of identification card altogether. Some opponents fear that any sort of ID would be not only a nightmare to administer but, more important, too totalitarian for most Americans to tolerate. Simpson, for one, remains undaunted. Says he: "If there is nothing else I get done I intend to send a signal to the world that you have to have some kind of identification before you work here. Right now we are the patsies of the earth...
...extroverted, jovial and quick to crack a joke; the other is introverted, serious, and reluctant to lavish praise. One de-emphasizes the importance of swimming--his team plays Ultimate Frisbee every Friday afternoon instead of lifting weights; the other demands an almost totalitarian dedication from his swimmers. And while one is characterized as "just one of the guys," the other is described as radiating a "god-like" and "fear-some" presence during workouts...
Distinguishing between authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, he added: "We tend to spend more time criticizing countries that are partly free, and making progress toward freedom, than those where little freedom exists." Finally, he argued, the greatest violation of human rights is the "new international terrorism, supported by various international networks." Novak concluded by promising the delegates that there would be no zigzagging on human rights by the Reagan Administration...
...Reagan Administration's view, overemphasis on human rights only undermines "authoritarian" regimes that have a capacity for change, and increases the chance that they will be succeeded by "totalitarian" governments-specifically, Communist ones-that obliterate human rights altogether. Says Ernest W. Lefever, who has been selected as Haig's top assistant for human rights policy: "There
...concerned that open societies sometimes get victimized by the practical consequences of their openness and by the lack of access to information about totalitarian regimes where, it is our conviction, the major abuses to human rights are occurring today. But this is an ancillary problem related to our more strongly held concern that past human rights policies have in many instances been counterproductive, not only to the objective of strengthening human rights but also from the standpoint of vital American interests...