Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many in the club," said one official). In both the Dominican Republic and Viet Nam, the U.S. intervened in what it con sidered a legitimate sphere of influence. But in the Dominican Republic, the government had been ousted and civil war threatened anarchy and, quite possibly, a new dictatorship. The U.S. intervention restored peace, saved lives, and resulted finally in re-establishment of elective government. Thus it can hardly be equated with Soviet aggression against Czechoslovakia...
...civil service. "There will be no military dictatorship here," he says. Somehow, despite the austerities of war, Biafran technicians have kept water and some power running in large cities, have even managed to short-circuit captured exchanges in order to keep telephone communications open...
...Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom," begins with two principles that the author considers axiomatic: that ."the division of mankind threatens it with destruction," and that "intellectual freedom is essential to human society." He then catalogues the clear and present dangers to physical survival: thermonuclear war, hunger, police dictatorship and atmospheric pollution. The threats to intellectual survival, he says, are the propaganda of mass culture, spreading bureaucracy and, again, dictatorship. The world's only hope in overcoming these menaces, he says, lies in a rapprochement between socialist and capitalist systems. To suggest how this might be accomplished, he analyzes...
...Silva wisely ordered jumpy military police to stay in their barracks during the march, thus preventing a recurrence of violence that had shaken the capital the week before when police clashed with marching students. He could hardly be untroubled by the demonstration's theme: "Students and people against dictatorship." As speakers who orated during the five-hour march made clear, Brazilians are deeply dissatisfied with progress under Costa, who promised to humanize the government when he took over as the army-picked candidate for President just over a year ago. Far from doing that, charged the sober...
Impressed by the success of student protests elsewhere, Rio's students began their own demonstrations and disorders two months ago. Their discontent has focused on Education Minister Tarso Dutra, a weak administrator whom Costa refuses to replace under pressure. Two weeks ago, students shouting "Down with Dictatorship" marched on Dutra's Le Corbusier-designed administration building to "confront" him. Before they got there, two platoons of police cut them off with tear gas and an antiriot hose truck. The students retreated from street corner to street cor ner, waving clubs disguised in rolled-up newspapers and regrouping each...