Word: totalitarian
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...Reagan was out campaigning, and the people were just growing sick, morally sick, over the consequences of having liberal Jimmy Carter in office, over the consequences of having liberal policies, leftist policies that were not really helping poor people who are not dealing with the threats of the totalitarian movement. It was giant wave, and of course this wave is going to come over campuses; it came over during the elections, and even the little trickle that's come onto Harvard...
...verified without on-site inspection, which Moscow has always resisted. Beyond that, a President pushed into negotiations with Moscow by the force of a populist movement, even in the name of a morally just cause, would be at an enormous disadvantage in trying to deal with leaders of a totalitarian society who knew in advance the limits of his maneuverability...
...hydrogen bomb and a Reagan Administration science adviser: I hope [the nuclear-freeze movement] will not become an important force. I hope more sense will prevail. If the nuclear freeze goes through, this country won't exist in 1990. The Soviet Union is a country that has had totalitarian rule for many hundreds of years, and what a relatively small ruling class there might do can be very different from what a democratic country can decide to do. The rulers in the Kremlin are as eager as Hitler was to get power over the whole world. But unlike Hitler...
...including some avowed Communists) and forcefully moving against one of the country's minority groups, the Miskito Indians, whose loyalty to the new regime is suspect. Still, Nicaragua is not yet a totalitarian society. Outside the government, a limited pluralism is provided by such elements as the Nicaraguan Democratic Movement; the private sector, which accounts for over 60% of the country's G.N.P.; the Catholic bishops; and the independent daily La Prensa...
...Politburo. Some of those secret reports tell of instant "personality changes" of high Soviet diplomats when they were informed of Suslov's demise. Those diplomats grew distant, their minds back in Moscow, as they worriedly waited for the changes that inevitably follow any unexpected interruption in totalitarian authority...