Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your peace plan rests on the naive assumption that there is a continuity of policy in the Arab states. Today's government espousing peaceful coexistence is likely to be replaced by a volatile military dictatorship bent on a holy crusade to destroy Israel...
...what the blacks want for Pretoria is not majority rule, but black rule. They're not against dictatorship; they just want...
...light of these conflicts, the FSLN moved last September to adjust its strategy to the new political conjuncture and with an aim to toppling the dictatorship. Last month's offensive corresponded to what the FSLN designated the "last phase of the revolutionary war" against Somoza, as opposed to the old strategy, favored by the more left-wing militants, emphasizing long term work in the countryside and the establishment of socialism through military struggle...
...Iran remains a one-party state and in fact a one-man dictatorship," TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn reported last week after a visit to Tehran. "But in a few months the police-state atmosphere has altered drastically to a mood of vastly greater individual freedom and relaxation. Among knowledgeable Iranians it is taken for granted that the liberalization was at least partly in response to the Carter campaign. The Shah apparently feels he has a better chance to buy American military hardware if he burnishes his image...
This is heresy to Berger. "I've been a lifelong liberal. But protection from dictatorship lies in laws, and laws should be interpreted in light of what the men who wrote them meant to signify," he says...