Word: totalitarian
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Khrushchev seemed to suffer from a totalitarian's inability to listen to any point of view but his own. But then, he is not used to sitting quietly in parliamentary bodies where everyone may speak freely in turn. As the week began, U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. emboldened by the Assembly's 70-0 vote endorsing his policies in the Congo, briefly but eloquently punctured Khrushchev's proposal to abolish the office of Secretary-General in favor of a veto-ridden three-man directorate. Implicitly accusing the Soviets of trying to oust him because he had opposed...
...dictatorship, Trujillo's totalitarian regime has within itself extremist and moderate wings, and they are engaged in Byzantine intriguing. Balaguer was a moderate, and for the moment Trujillo knowingly freed him to act. As the new president, Balaguer took office saying that his main job would be "continuing the process of democratization" and promised to seek a general amnesty for political prisoners...
Guinea's growing totalitarian atmosphere has been worsening almost since the first day of independence in 1958. "The government and the Assembly are nothing," said Touré last September. "They exist only to implement decisions of the party." Last year Communist agents from abroad flocked in to help with Red barter deals and aid programs, which Touré was happy to accept as an alternative to bankruptcy. Now Czechs, Poles, East Germans, Hungarians and even Red Chinese have their fingers in almost every facet of the government from the physical education program to economic planning. Under their guidance, Guinea...
...leaders as Secretary of State Herter, Under Secretary of State Dillon and Vice President Nixon. All, growled Khrushchev, were "a bad sign" for the summit. What seemed to rankle most of all was Dillon's speech, which charged bluntly that East Berliners "are constrained to live under a totalitarian regime, unlawfully imposed by a foreign power," and warned that in pressing for allied concessions, Khrushchev was skating on thin ice. "If we must speak of thin ice," thundered Khrushchev, "then look, Mr. Dillon, what you are standing on. Unfortunately, these speeches have been approved by the President...
Revealing the side of Cuba that Castro's ad-signing supporters do not seem to see, the Cuban Ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Andres Vargas Gomez, quit his post last week charging that the government is "totalitarian and Communistoriented." And Commentator Luis Conte Aguero, whose Cuban TV rating was once up to Paar, fled to U.S. exile because, he said, Castro is now a "prisoner of pro-Communists." Inmates in Havana's filthy Principe Prison rioted twice, setting fire to bedding, and relatives of political prisoners in La Cabana Fortress learned that 30 Castro gunslingers...