Word: dictatorship
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HARVARD STUDENTS, like most Americans, have come to think of the Indochina War as a nightmare safely past, now that overt American combat there is ended. But American aid and munitions continue to pour into the coffers of Saigon dictatorship, just as the Nixon administration aids its political bedfellows in Chile, Greece, Brazil, South Korea, the Philippines, and the Middle East. In any of these regions an increase of popular resistance to U.S.-supported oppression could cause the government to drag us into new counterrevolutionary intervention. This continual threat of war means that now, as with Dow Chemical...
Another speaker, Leon Eisenberg, professor of Psychiatry at the Ed School, said the Pentagon and the CIA, which help insure dictatorship in Greece, also "threaten democracy in this country...
...group of Chilean leftists recently chose an improbable phrase to inform the rest of the world that they intend to remain in Chile and fight the military dictatorship instead of seeking asylum abroad. The Miristas, a Chilean New Left of students who left the universities to work with landless peasants and urban workers, said only that they would remain in Chile "to fulfill our obligations." They consciously chose a future of furtive meetings and constant fear which for some of them will surely culminate in electric-shock tortures and machine-gun executions...
...written to remind us that the concentration camps still exist and that millions continue to die in them, and to remind the U.S. of its criminal stupidity and moral fecklessness in failing to combat Soviet oppression of its people. Although Solzhenitsyn himself may now be safe, the Soviet dictatorship still remains...
Many islanders worried that once Britain let go altogether, Gairy would set up a miniature dictatorship with himself as a pocket Napoleon. "There could be massive bloodshed in a few days," warned Maurice Bishop, one of the opposition leaders beaten in the first attacks last year. "The population is not prepared to be ruled by any madman, and it is very clear the 'jackal'-as the populace now calls him-is simply not prepared to resign. I think he is certifiably...