Word: tyrant
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Outside of China and North Korea, only Fidel Castro, another octogenarian dictator, still reigns with the ultimate power of a charismatic tyrant. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba's isolation became complete. Castro has not been grooming a successor as obviously as Kim did, nor does he have as huge a party bureaucracy to pick up the pieces when he dies...
Inside the folder Humphreys found a sketchy narrative about a child abandoned by her 13-year-old mother and left to be raised by a grandmother who is beaten to death by her second husband. Daddy, as he is called, is not only a killer but a tyrant, an African-American Simon Legree, who turns Ruthie into a body servant. She shaves him, bathes him and cuts the calluses off his feet. When displeased -- which is often -- he beats her with the buckle end of a belt. The narrator was no angel either: she used drugs and traded...
Unless led by a hated tyrant, a country that loses its head of state by violence often goes a bit mad. In Rwanda the madness was spreading even before the night of April 6, when the plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana and his neighboring head of state Cyprien Ntaryamira from Burundi was shot out of the sky over the capital of Kigali, plunging into the gardens of the presidential palace. Habyarimana was a Hutu who had grabbed power in a coup in 1973 and worked hard to hang onto it. He was on his way back from a peace conference...
...Nixon) and relieved the nation of a tremendous burden. Today, with Nixon's precedent, a president should have no compunction about withdrawing forces from an unsuccessful mission. The Soviet Union learned the same lesson in Afghanistan, and much too late. When the objective is to remove a bloody tyrant or stop a senseless territorial war, at least the noble attempt will have been made...
...tyrant trifecta. Stalin sent her a note praising her film Olympia. Mussolini asked her to make a documentary about the Pontine marshes. And Hitler was her patron for three documentaries about his party, especially Triumph of the Will, which helped define Nazi swagger...