Word: totalitarian
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...foreign press escaped. After banning the French daily Le Figaro on dozens of occasions during the past twelve months, the government barred its correspondent Jacques Guillemé-Brulon after he had attacked Information Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne, who administers the press law, for "totalitarian" practices. Life has also been hard for the reporters covering student and worker demonstrations. Earlier this year, Aldo Trippini, U.P.I, bureau chief in Spain, was badly beaten by police armed with truncheons at the Uni versity of Madrid. Two U.S. TV reporters-NBC's Al Rosenfeld and ABC's Har ry Debelius-were picked...
...coalitions make strange bed-fellows and it will be a miracle if they are able to effect harmonious execution of their agreed upon programs. Even if they do, the situation in India is not likely to improve radically within their tenure. It has arisen out of deep conflict between totalitarian economic planning and a democratic political order and will only improve with time and with drastic changes in the pattern of economic planning. Quite possibly, at the time of the 1972 elections, the people may find themselves as disenchanted with the parties they have voted to power as they...
...ignoring it but by emphasizing it," he maintains. And the villain at the bottom of all this? Organized religion, announced Hefner with an unabashed air of discovery. Hefner revived puritanism long enough to condemn it for being as "stultifying to the mind of man as Communism or any other totalitarian concept...
...draft has never been popular, but has long been tolerated as a necessary evil. It is more insidious than that. Conscription is a totalitarian concept, out of place in a liberal society except in time of national peril. Forcing a man to devote two years of his life to servitude of the state should not be dismissed as a legitimate and unchallengeable exercise of governmental authority...
Some Spaniards fear that last week's disturbances may cause Franco to reverse his liberal trend and reimpose totalitarian controls. Now that Spaniards have had a taste of the new liberalism, however, any attempts to reassert the old autocratic rule might only provoke even greater violence among students and workers. That would wipe out Franco's plan to guide Spain into a new era of freedom before his death, and with it his hope that history will judge him as a ruler who knew when to innovate rather than to dictate...