Word: tyrant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ershad's exit boosted hopes for democratic succession in a country whose political history has been written in blood. Though he vowed to run for the presidency again, legislators in his own Jatiya Party were resigning last week and even military loyalists encouraged him to go. Scandals, a tyrant's image and a 50% rise in oil prices since the Persian Gulf crisis broke out sealed his doom. Said one movement leader: "From government officers to ricksha pullers, all were out in the street. It was phenomenal." It will also be phenomenal if democracy manages to heal a country that...
Saddam Hussein is an evil dictator, who deserves to be the international pariah he has become. But this is not our war. Liberating a tiny Gulf state and humiliating the tyrant of the week is not an acceptable rationale for massive American casualites...
...song blasts Hussein with the lyrics, "I am the chosen leader, no I'm not insane, it's right and just because I am Hussein, I am Iraq, I am a tyrant...
...Father redoubled his efforts. The authorities became aware of those efforts in the winter of 1967-1968. Brezhnev was greatly upset. How to make Father stop work on the project? Should they search his dacha and seize the tapes? That would trigger a scandal, leaving Brezhnev looking like a tyrant and Khrushchev a martyr. So what was to be done? The choice was to call Khrushchev in and persuade him to cease work on his memoirs and turn over what he had written to the Central Committee. If he refused, he should be compelled, even intimidated into cooperating. After...
...economic and political plans with a proposed program of sovereignty that would reduce the country to an alliance. -- In Poland, patience must not be in short supply if economic reforms are to succeed. -- A landslide victory for Burma's opposition. -- Iraq's Saddam Hussein: dangerous madman or cunning tyrant...