Word: dictatorship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...firebrand converted by Gandhi's story, he returned from U.S. exile in 1983, below, to talk Ferdinand Marcos into dismantling his dictatorship. Aquino was shot on arrival. His widow Corazon was later swept into power...
...house state legislature and replace it with a single house. And yet there are these distractions. You go to a Timberwolves game and shout at the ref like any NBA fan, and then you're ridiculed on TV as a hothead. No wonder Ventura jokes that "benevolent dictatorship" may be the "perfect form of government...
...looting in major cities and the carnage in seceding East Timor, this sprawling archipelago of 210 million people has not disintegrated into ungovernability or civil war. Some had predicted the world's next Yugoslavia, but after last week, Indonesia had instead completed its graduation from a military-backed dictatorship to the world's third largest democracy (after India and the U.S.). "Indonesia is born again," said military historian Salim Said. "This is a chance to finally see if civilians can run the country...
...boys they were indistinguishable. Now their faces tell very different stories: Peiyuan's face, thin and ravaged, is the story of a China that Mao wrought, with its famines, executions, and harsh labor camps. Peiji's face, fleshy and grinning, is the story of another China, a military dictatorship that became the industrious and democratic society of today's Taiwan...
These days, almost a decade after Chile's dictatorship came to an end, even Pinochet's defenders rarely deny that his regime is responsible for these atrocities, or that Pinochet himself directed his government's reign of terror. Instead, they ask why Spanish courts should be trying Pinochet. Put another way, they ask why foreign nations shouldn't be forced to accept the way that Chilean authorities resolve--or don't resolve--these charges...