Word: totalitarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anderson: As has been the case throughout history, in our country and elsewhere in the world, in democracies and totalitarian states alike, ordinary people, like the citizens I meet every day as I travel through this land of ours, have cried out for something new when the old begins to...(transmission of sound interrupted for 27 minutes)...this vast land of ours, which I have traveled for months now, speaking with people from every walk of life, the lowly to the mighty...
...role as the last bastion of a free press until another paper joins its ranks, but also because he loves Argentina and believes it can thrive as a modern, stable, pluralistic democracy. "We're on a very gradual curve and no one knows whether you're curving into a totalitarian government or curving out of it," he says, "but I have hope...
...clear-cut victory for the forces of modernization and pragmatism, led by Deng, over the proponents of conservative party orthodoxy, captained by Hua. The changes also reflect a desire on the part of Deng and his colleagues for a system of more truly collective leadership, free of the totalitarian one-man rule installed by Mao. The Congress, in fact, will consider how to improve the new local and regional election process. In China's one-party system the process is hardly democratic, but it could open up the country's vast, entrenched bureaucracy to new people who have...
...spectacle is not shaping up as the kind of party that many democratic countries would feel comfortable attending. As the Soviets prepared to receive 150,000 or so visitors (about half the total expected before the boycott), Moscow resembled a giant Potemkin village being gussied up by a heavy, totalitarian hand...
...single statement: "Not hindered by Jane Fonda-like ecology zeal ots, the Soviet Union is moving ahead on nuclear energy." The antinuclear move ment in our own country is not Jane Fonda. It is a broad-based coalition of people who fear irreparable harm to the environment and the totalitarian mea sures that would certainly have to be taken to ensure security - if that is pos sible - in a nuclear world...