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...Marcos has encountered little opposition. Even some of his opponents yearned for a way to end the Philippine political paralysis, and saw a dictatorship as one way of getting things done. Deep social inequalities and high-level corruption have made the country's 26-year experiment with democracy a fitful experience at best. With Congress mired in battles among bickering factions of the ruling Nacionalista Party, the government has been virtually immobilized-unable to pass, among other things, the land-reform program that Marcos simply decreed last week...
...quality that made the difference. McGovern was cheered just as warmly and usually longer. Moreover, he began to get the feel of audience-tested lines. The most popular, repeated in litany: "Never again will we commit the precious young blood of this land to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship 10,000 miles away...
...months, Ricord has been sitting in an Asunción prison cell, at the center of a diplomatic tug of war between the Nixon Administration and Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner's military dictatorship. Since October 1970, when federal agents seized five couriers with a shipment of 97.5 lbs. of heroin (worth about $12 million on the street) in Miami and succeeded in tracing it back to Ricord, the U.S. has been seeking to extradite him on conspiracy charges, alleging that he is the kingpin of a syndicate that piped more than 11,000 lbs. of heroin ($1.2 billion) through...
More than a decade of large-scale fighting in Southeast Asia has left many Americans with the impression that the war-weary South Vietnamese, if given a free choice, would gladly exchange a military dictatorship in Saigon for a Communist regime if they could get peace in the bargain. To hear some antiwar activists tell it, Hanoi's forces are benevolent friends of the South Vietnamese population. Well, not quite. The fact is that the North Vietnamese have sometimes been shockingly brutal in their treatment of South Vietnamese who happened to be under their control...
More than that, a no-growth world would have extreme difficulty providing either social justice or freedom. It is hard to see how growth could be halted, or even substantially slowed, without a world dictatorship-the more so as citizens of underdeveloped countries already suspect that the no-growth argument is an elitist, aristocratic, white man's conspiracy to lock them into perpetual poverty. It would do little good to stop growth in the U.S. if it raged on in Algeria and Indonesia. At minimum, people would have to be told that they could not buy the flush toilets...