Word: totalitarian
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...architects of Singapore's development in the last decade are a technocratic elite, directed by the PAP leadership. Lee Kuan Yew has led his trusted team of talented and brilliant senior cabinet members in ruthlessly creating a totalitarian city-state which is oft-cited in the West as a showcase of successful capitalist development and a paradise for foreign investors. Accompanying this experience is a meritocratic-elitist ideology which is summed up in Lee's claim that Singapore will perish if a jumbo-jet containing 300 of Singapore's top leaders were to crash...
...OFTEN been said that ours is an antiheroic age. Nonetheless, Christians have had their share of martyrs in the 20th century. Men like Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Alexander Solzenhitsyn and thousands of other nameless Christians have defied totalitarian persecution; many have died for doing so. Few men have borne more eloquent and courageous witness to the Christian faith in the face of tyranny than Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty...
Although the University of California does not yet even have any contracts with Iran, the Daily Californian, the student paper, protested: "That the University of California would even consider dealing with such an oppressive, totalitarian regime is an affront to the ideals of a free university." U.C. Vice President Durward Long disagrees. Says he: "We consider assisting developing nations to improve their educational capacities in the interest of their people...
...country has benefited in very large measure from the actions of the junta has somehow not been formed by anyone of the above-mentioned. This may be because of the irrefutable evidence of continuing torture, solitary confinement with trial, assassination, exile, abolition of political and civil rights, and other totalitarian tricks which even the junta does not deny. Or it may be because of the 600 per cent inflation rate, the 20 per cent unemployment rate, the militarization of universities and the destitution of thousands of Chileans...
...CONSOLIDATION of Communist control and rebuilding the wartorn country were Mao's top priorities after the 1949 defeat of the Nationalists. A totalitarian society emerged as the Communists gained control of almost every aspect of political, economic, cultural and even family life. The private economic sector was eliminated: banks, industry and trade were nationalized; forced collectivization of the farms cost the lives of at least 1 million landlords and other "enemies of the people." A five-year plan supported by Soviet loans and technical aid emphasized heavy industry...