Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pompidou had waged a scare campaign, successfully terrorizing the voters into seeking sanctuary with Gaullism The Communists were especially bitter, since the Gaullists had singled them out as the scapegoats for the disorders, accusing them of conspiring to take over France and turn it into a Communist dictatorship; actually, the disorders ignited with little if any aid from the Communist Party. Cried Communist Party Leader Waldeck Rochet: "The Gaullists won by applying blackmail of fear against the French people...
...Even in a dictatorship...
...Greece soon; about his only public activity recently was to be guest of honor at an international karate contest in Rome's Olympic Village (he holds a black belt). Other Greeks abroad are not, however, so fatalistic; in city after city this week, they protested the military dictatorship. Actress Melina Mercouri, who has made opposition to the junta a second career, flew into London for a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, and similar rallies were scheduled for, among other places, Chicago, Montreal, Melbourne, Stockholm, West Berlin and Rome...
...story of dramatic changes in Czechoslovakia [April 5] is fascinating. The ice of 20 years of totalitarian dictatorship has started to melt. It's remarkable that a nation that was betrayed by the West is able to accomplish the liberalization, with re-establishment of some of the basic freedoms, without outside help or interference. The question arises: Is it worth it or justified to fight Communism with precious American blood in the jungles of Southeast Asia when the same system seems gradually disintegrating from the inside in Central Europe...
...went on to say that if a fascist dictatorship were extended following Franco's death, the Spanish people would rise up in rebellion. The monarchy, on the other hand, can only be considered a temporary solution, he said...