Word: dictatorship
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...Greek junta has gained enough notoriety in this country that any lengthy recounting of its atrocities-especially by an American who has never been to Greece and knows nothing of its culture after the first century-would be ludicrous. America has supported the dictatorship, with recognition and money. To strengthen its friendship with the colonels, the State Department has lately been host to the junta's Minister of Education, Nikitas Sioris. As part of his tour, the Department arranged for Sioris to be shown the educational resources at Harvard, as an official guest of the University...
...temptation, I think, all Presidents and all men who aspire to great power face." Even so, Author White feels that the United States is at least half a century away from the possibility of anything like Caesarian takeover. "There is, however, a real threat of a dictatorship by power blocs and through mass manipulation. But I have great faith in the ability of our communications media to protect...
Cruel Dilemma. The Soviet Union is, of course, a dictatorship that denies all its citizens many basic human rights taken for granted in the West. But the Jews are treated worse than most. Despite its slogans about equality. Communism has always been ambivalent on the Semitic question. In the early days, many leading Bolsheviks were Jewish, including Leon Trotsky. Under Stalin...
Last week the capital was also invaded by 70 urban guerrillas who were sprung from Brazilian jails in return for the release of kidnaped Swiss Ambassador Enrico Giovanni Bucher. The Brazilians, most of student age, were warmly received. When one bellowed "Down with the Brazilian dictatorship!" as he stepped off the plane, a claque of admiring Chilean students chorused back: "Down, down, down, down...
...time ago, "it is not because she cut women's hair, married silk and wool, put pearls on sweaters, avoided poetic labels on her perfumes, lowered the waistline or raised the waistline and obliged women to follow her directives; it is because-outside of this gracious and robust dictatorship-there is nothin» in her era that she has missed...