Word: dictatorship
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Across one-sixth of the world's land surface, the dictatorship of the Soviet proletariat campaigned for re-election last week on a platform of peace, bread, and four more years of all-out effort to "catch up with the West." In snowbound Lettish villages, in orange-scented Georgian watering places, in Uzbek desert oases, the same red-and-white signs marked the local "agitpunkt" campaign headquarters for the 1,364 unopposed candidates running for election to the Supreme Soviet. At rallies everywhere candidates, including the country's top bosses, blared campaign promises as if they really needed...
...Rossiter claimed that two sophomores joined the club too late to vote in the elections. Earlier in the meeting, many members laughed derisively when Benno P. Ludwig '59 praised "the principles of young Republicanism" in his speech nominating Peterson. Ludwig also aroused laughter when he asked for "leadership, not dictatorship; coordination, not subordination...
While many Caracas publishers went along with the dictatorship, Capriles stretched his dangerous liberty to the point of mimeographing wire stories critical of the government and passing them to restive army officers. On New Year's Day, after the abortive air-force revolt at Maracay, submachine-gun-toting security police bundled Capriles off to jail, where he was later joined by his brother, Marco, Ultimas Noticias' circulation manager. Carlos, a third brother, fled to Colombia, while five top Capriles editors went into hiding or exile. By last week all were back at work in Caracas...
...popular favorite was a strange one. An aging survivor of the reactionary 1931-44 Jorge Ubico dictatorship, General Ydigoras, 62, is a hardworking, fluent spellbinder, backed by feudal landlords. Though anticlerical in the past, he casually promised to have a famed Guatemalan priest canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. M.D.N. charged that he also dropped leaflets by airplane on election day announcing that Cruz Salazar had just withdrawn from the race...
...Promising to "give this country peace if I have to shoot every other man in Nicaragua to do it," Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza took command of the Nicaraguan National Guard when the U.S. Marines pulled out in 1933, parlayed his talents into dictatorship, a string of coffee plantations and cattle ranches into a $60 million fortune, was killed, at 60, by an assassin in September...