Word: totalitarian
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...comandantes were quiet. The ideological [debate] was really between the two F.D.R. people [Ungo and Zamora] and ourselves. Zamora said, "There is no democratic election unless there is an absolute democracy." I said to him, "This is a totalitarian concept. You want everything now." They would not accept, for example, even the bureaucracy. They were thinking totally authoritarian. I said I didn't agree with that. I believed that we are in a process, so I said, "The case is comparing whether there have been changes between 1979 and today. You are not accepting this, and this is your...
...prospect of flagging vocal powers, Vishnevskaya, 58, turned to writing her autobiography with the same fevered intensity she invested in her operatic roles. These are no ghostwritten and-then-I-sang memoirs. Not since Dmitri Shostakovich's posthumously published confessional Testimony has a musician so convincingly portrayed a totalitarian state that spawns great artists, then despises the art they go on to produce...
...purged the junta of all non-Sandinista elements, and proceeded to indoctrinate their people with Marxist ideology and excessive militarism. The oft-cited progress toward literacy in Nicaragua loses its luster in such a context; we doubt the value of reading when all printed materials are controlled by a totalitarian regime...
...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...