Word: totalitarianism
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...Administration justifies its own terrorism mainly by arguing that the Nicaraguan regime, because of its quasi-totalitarian nature, is illegitamate and a threat to our security. But if we are to preach the principle of national self-determination and the need to ensure civilized behavior, we cannot do it arbitrarily. We cannot mine harbors in one section of the world because we dislike one nation's regime, and then express outrage when our embassies are bombed in a different regime someone else happens to dislike...
...from being the totalitarian state depicted by State Department spokesmen, these professors and administrators describe Nicaragua as a beleaguered country engaged in a noble experiment but threatened by U.S. backed invaders. Should Nicaragua be forced to fight for its survival, the professors say, it may well become a military state--out of necessity, not out of ideological preference...
...because American made military goods and computers are helping the white minority government enforce apartheid. Damon A. Silvers '86, a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee and the Endowment for Divestiture, charged that SYE, a small, radical Trotskyism group, was using the apartheid issue "for their own sectarian, totalitarian ends." Silver added that Black workers in South Africa approve of divestiture as a way of ending apartheid...
...measure of great literature is its capacity to serve as a mirror, allowing each interpreter to see his own concerns reflected. By that standard, Rumanian Director Lucian Pintilie's vision of Tartuffe-a portrait of an absurdist, spy-flecked totalitarian state-is not only legitimate but a tribute to the hardihood of Moliere's 17th century satire of conformity and misplaced religious fervor. Pintilie's production at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis will not please purists: it is manic rather than mannered, it looks abstract and austere rather than luxuriously "in period," and it ingeniously takes liberties...
...hulks of the infield tossed their anchors and made their muscles, but rather obviously missed the boycotters. Nobody can handle a ball and chain quite like a totalitarian. It did not spoil his mood too much when opening-day Flagman Ed Burke missed the finals in the hammer throw. "Just because I didn't advance doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it," he said. Should some young U.S. hammer throwers be inspired, he will be pleased. "They need to learn how to compete," he said kindly. "A lot of them are marshmallows." The winner, Finland...