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WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. Because his novels reflected so clearly the injustices of Soviet dictatorship, Author Tarsis was unjustly committed to a mental asylum. In this bitter novel he outlines the misery of his fellow inmates...
Since the late 1920s, one party alone, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, has ruled Mexico, putting up a new President every six years in a cut-and-dried election. Some people might label it dictatorship. Mexicans call it "guided democracy," and by some alchemy the system does seem to operate as a sort of national consensus. Last week Mexico's President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz marched to the rostrum of the Chamber of Deputies to make his first state-of-the-nation address after nine months in office. His speech was a remarkable definition of Mexico's sense...
Everybody is entitled to his opinion-but in the eyes of many editors, Columnist and Author (The Day Christ Died) Jim Bishop was voicing some very peculiar opinions last week. Bishop took a two-week vacation in sunny Haiti, where an especially brutal dictatorship dishes out voodoo, terror and death. In five columns distributed to 159 newspapers by Hearst's King Features, Bishop wrote as if he were in a delightful if somewhat seedy country of racial harmony, fiscal integrity, health and peace...
...supplying vast amounts of food to Caamano's rebel zone-and could cut off those supplies if the rebels persist in refusing to yield their stronghold. Yet how long any settlement or provisional government will last is a moot point. After 31 years of savage Trujillo dictatorship and subsequent vacuum, the hatreds of the Dominican Republic run deep, and there are thousands of people on both sides who are just aching to have at each other. Added to that is the Castroite 14th-of-June group, which controls almost 2,000 of the 7,000 armed rebels...
...Young Germans, by and large, are also convinced of the importance of some form of democratic government. A full 60% endorse the present system, while another 20% favor guided democracy on the Gaullist model. Only a trifling 1% to 4% incline to dictatorship...