Word: totalitarian
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...American press has also been under steady attack by the Soviet Union ever since the Chernobyl nuclear accident. This takes true totalitarian gall. In the first few days, when the Soviets were hiding the facts, many American papers carried the U.P.I. report of 2,000 deaths, from an anonymous source in Kiev, but scrupulously did not sensationalize what could not be verified. The one major exception was the New York Post, that cynical tabloid that continues to lose millions for its Australian-born publisher, Rupert Murdoch. The Post used half its front page for a black headline MASS GRAVE, adding...
...obviously the reverse is not necessarily true: while repression can strengthen Communism, removing repression does not automatically weaken Communism or other totalitarian forces. The Kennedy Administration decided that the Diem regime in Viet Nam no longer deserved U.S. support, among other reasons because its oppressiveness made it unpopular and therefore ineffectual. But the governments we put in place after we eliminated Diem were not necessarily any better in the long run. The Carter Administration made a similar decision about Somoza in Nicaragua, and yet again the Sandinistas are hardly an improvement, as most Nicaraguans know only too well today...
...obligation "to offer help" to the government. It can, I repeat, do so if it wants to--as long as in doing so it does not violate its academic obligations. Otherwise, academics in this country will fall to the level to which many so-called scholars have fallen in totalitarian regimes. But one of the many dangers that neo-conservative ideologues overlook, in their crusade against the "evil empire," is the tendency to have our ends justify any means, and thus the erasing of the differences between the ethical standards a liberal society must maintain, and those of its enemies...
...claims at this time, a form of free expression to build shanties and display signs around them, then the tearing down of this conservative information is an inexcusable violation of the right of free expression. When only side is allowed to express it views, the society can be called totalitarian. Is this what Harvard wants...
...bathed in a brilliant aureole of white light. Forget gray. Much as in the debate that polarized Americans during the war in Viet Nam, cool heads and dispassionate judgments seldom prevail in a discussion of U.S.-Nicaraguan relations. The Sandinistas are either hard-core Communists with a cruelly totalitarian agenda or committed revolutionaries with a uniquely Latin American vision of the future. The U.S.-backed contras, on the other hand, are either brave freedom fighters or treacherous mercenaries. WARNING: entry into the debate may be hazardous to your reputation...