Word: dictatorship
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...fact that the raid happened while Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, a moderate, was out of the country, and accused tough-minded Premier David Ben-Gurion of an unconstitutional act in ordering the raid without consulting a single Cabinet member in advance. This, said Haaretz, "brought Israel dangerously close to dictatorship by the chief of government . . . How can Israel succeed in persuading the world that she resorts to force only when her security and integrity are at stake...
...Colombia's seven living ex-Presidents, some from Rojas' own Conservative Party and others from the opposition Liberals. The general complaint: Rojas' increasingly harsh measures, e.g., closing down the respected Bogotá daily El Tiempo last August, are turning Colombia into an out-and-out military dictatorship, and costing the government heavily in prestige. Rojas' answer, made in an impromptu speech at the opening of an exhibit of public works: "I ask myself how the government can be losing prestige? Formerly Liberal governments persecuted Conservatives and many Conservative authorities persecuted Liberals, while today every Colombian knows...
...present concentration of power in a few private hands is allowed to exist, the system will eventually become a dictatorship," he told a New Conservative Club meeting. "General Motors is an economic state which controls or deeply affects every state's economy," he said...
...party was an invaluable prop to his dictatorship. Founded in 1949 and force-fed on government funds and jobs, the party grew to 3,000,000 members. Working against divided opposition and favored by winner-take-all election laws, the Peronistas were eventually able to name all but twelve of the 200 legislators in Congress. By party statutes, Chief of the Movement Perón passed on all candidates and party leaders. Charged the decree that dissolved it: the party "served unconditionally all the deviations, violations and arbitrary acts of the former ruler...
...President Aramburu, La Prensa was taken from the custody of the government, which had expropriated it, and returned to Owner Doña Zelmira and the Paz family. The paper's seizure by Perón, said the decree, was "one of the most implacable persecutions" of the dictatorship. Hours later Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, 56, the paper's longtime editor and publisher, ended his exile in Manhattan and flew to Buenos Aires for a triumphant homecoming...