Word: dictatorship
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Andreas Papandreou, the leading figure of the Greek political left, has posed one question ceaselessly ever since his exile by the military junta which now rules his country: Why is it that the Greek people did not rise in large numbers to crush the dictatorship and restore democratic rule...
...canonization" ritual of "Savior" Allende, please bear in mind that Mussolini, Hitler, Jimenez, Castro and Papa Duvalier all began in the same phony manner. First, treat your subjects with plenty of tender loving care, win their gullible confidence, then slowly but surely apply the inevitable pressures of cruel, totalitarian dictatorship...
...Dossier Dictatorship. More recently, Ervin has criticized two institutions that most conservatives hold dear: the FBI and the U.S. Army. He accuses both of snooping on Americans in ways that endanger First Amendment freedoms of speech, thought and privacy. "If we are going to be a free society," says Ervin, "the Government is going to have to take some risks; they can't put everyone under surveillance...
Last week Ervin's subcommittee began hearings on his biggest concern to date: how to safeguard the political liberties of U.S. citizens from what one witness called "dossier dictatorship"-the vast files that are now being computerized by assorted snoopers, ranging from credit bureaus to Army agents, who allegedly concentrate their spying on war protesters. Dramatizing his worries about computers, Ervin displayed two props: a 1,245-page Bible and a two-inch-square piece of microfilm, each containing 773,746 words. "Someone remarked that this meant the Constitution could be reduced to the size of a pin-head...
...when "guess-who" was still Vice President, a military-led and middle-class supported coup overthrew a pro-Western reactionary dictatorship in Iraq. When the new government threatened to nationalize some of the foreign investments in its country, the U. S. responded by landing Marines in Lebanon, while the British landed paratroops in Jordan. As a front-page dispatch in the N. Y. Times said: "Intervention will not be extended to Iraq as long as the revolutionary government in Iraq respects Western oil interests...