Word: authoritarianism
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...family has rasped some of the tarnish from the American image, but genuine reforms would wipe off even more. A shiny image is exceedingly important in a largely ideological world-wide contest that presents the U.S. as the champion of a system claiming democratic advantages over the more authoritarian alternatives...
...American people about the Communist danger. We should not be lulled into a false sense of security." Did her husband, and not her brother-in-law, really rule South Viet Nam? "It is the President who rules, not my husband or me," she replied. "President Diem is too authoritarian to allow anything else." When Columnist Mary McGrory asked, "Why did you come here at our expense?" Mme. Nhu replied icily, "I was not aware that all the money in Viet Nam was American...
Boston pays teachers on a par with its richer suburbs, but working conditions are antiquated. Teachers must still munch lunch at their desks while policing the kids. Young teachers avoid Boston, and the average age of teachers is close to 50. Apathy, fed by authoritarian administrators, wreathes the system like a cloud of poison...
...port of Phanthiet, 100 miles east of Saigon, a 21-year-old novice Buddhist monk named Nguyen Huong poured gasoline over his robes, then lit a match and turned himself into a human pyre. He was the second Buddhist priest to burn himself to death in protest against the authoritarian regime of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem and his ruling family...
...fragile, ex citing beauty who stands only 5 ft. 2 in. in high heels ? who has kept her girlish grace though she is the mother of four ? Mme. Nhu does not look the part. To her critics she symbolizes everything that is wrong with the remote, authoritarian, family-dominated Diem regime. But if she is vain, arbitrary, puritanical, imperious and devious, she also exudes strength, dedication and courage. To some it seems that she belongs in an intrigue-encrusted 18th century court, or that she should wear the robes of a Chinese empress ? or both...