Word: totalitarianism
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...press may believe that Americans are amused by looking at pictures of smiling Oriental children, Chinese "couples in love" and adorable panda bears. But one important fact is left out: the people are kept under a rigid, totalitarian regime that talks peace, understanding and freedom, but is as militaristic, ruthless and restrictive as the government in Moscow...
...athletes have never been particularly enthusiastic Red-baiters. Innuendoes do fly like javelins over female village smithies who toss anvils for totalitarian states. In 1976, the last Summer Games attended by Americans, the U.S. women swimmers could have taken their thumping by East Germany more gracefully. Some muttered that the Germans' particular star, Kornelia Ender, resembled a man, though she did not look like a man to men, certainly not to Roland Mathes, who married her. He was the G.D.R.'s top male swimmer, and a friendship between Mathes and John Naber, the best American, was evident...
AFTER a half century of virtually uninterrupted military rule, a hint of democracy has finally penetrated Argentina's totalitarian armor President Raul Alfonsin's government, succeeding a brutal military regime, offers many Argentines what it ought to offer the Reagan Administration a chance to make a Latin American nation survive and prosper And, perhaps more importantly for the U.S. Alfonsin has given the Administration a plum chance to put its money where its mouth to really work for liberty and justice...
...head of the country's nine-member Roman Catholic Episcopal Conference, Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega, used harsh language to describe the plight of his flock under the Marxist-led Sandinistas. Said Vega: "The tragedy of the Nicaraguan people is that we are living with a totalitarian ideology that no one wants in this country." While the priest spoke, nearly a dozen military Jeeps circled the building. Says a church spokesman, the Rev. Bismarck Carballo: "Our relations with the Sandinistas have totally deteriorated...
...activity that leads to unpleasant investigation, and sometimes to forced relocation, is unauthorized contact with foreigners. Uniformed policemen armed with pistols stand guard over Peking's residential compounds for foreigners to keep unapproved Chinese visitors out. Observes Michel Oksenberg of the University of Michigan: "The previous totalitarian system under the domination of a single dictator is yielding to an authoritarian system with a collective leadership at the top. The instruments of totalitarian control have yet to be dismantled...