Word: totalitarian
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...terrorist" for alleged crimes committed during the Civil War. But Madrid's Court of Public Order decreed that Carrillo and his comrades should be charged with a relatively light offense-violating a law against membership in a party "submitting to an international discipline that proposes to establish a totalitarian system" in Spain. If tried and convicted, the Carabanchel Eight could get as much as six years in prison...
...world at large, China's Hua Kuo-feng, a moderate, aborted a prospective coup by radicals and succeeded Chairman Mao Tse-tung, whose death at 82 posed the classic problem of power transfer in a totalitarian nation. In the Middle East, Syrian President Hafez Assad gained new stature by forcibly bringing to a halt the civil war in Lebanon involving rightist Christians, left-wing Moslems, and their Palestinian allies. Seriously set back, and at least temporarily under control of Arab moderates, the Palestine Liberation Organization seemed more amenable to making compromises at a new Geneva conference...
...programs of assassination of foreign officials and conducted secret wars abroad. South Korea has only brought home to the United States the sorts of sordid campaigns that the American government has ordered against other countries for at least a generation. The difference is that the South Korean regime is totalitarian, while the United States is, officially, the largest democracy on earth...
Moynihan certainly turned himself into something of a national hero (and did wonders with the Jewish vote) by his spectacular stands in defense of Israel and in defiance of left-wing totalitarian assaults on the West. But he argues that he told President Ford he planned to stay on, and that he would have remained had he not fallen afoul of Henry Kissinger, who disapproved of his too independent line. After resigning from his U.N. post, Moynihan returned to Harvard, where for four months he pondered a political run. Centrist party leaders courted Moynihan for two reasons: they thought...
...second sea change came in the 1960s when the angry New Left, convinced that liberals and conservatives were alike in their Viet Nam-cold war complicity, trashed the liberal scene. The Commentary crowd, including men like Pat Moynihan, recoiled in shock from leftists who extolled the totalitarian "social justice" of a Cuba or a China. To Irving Kristol, 20th century liberalism has become neo-socialism, a creed "more interested in equality than in liberty." Critic Alfred Kazin concludes that liberal and conservative are "fraudulent and intellectually useless terms." Why not, asks another, declare a moratorium on both words, since both...