Word: dictatorship
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General Eduardo Lonardi last week handed back to the Argentine people more of the rights and liberties lost under the dictatorship of Juan Perón. Acting with speed and sense, the new President...
...cops dusted off a law that dates to the dictatorship of Jorge Ubico (1931-44), and makes "speaking ill of the President" punishable by prison terms of six months to three years. One of the first arrested turned out to be a pro-government editor whose words were misunderstood by informers; he was beaten, then hastily freed. Small boys up before dawn were searched (and found to be newspaper deliverers...
...wife and three children, his lifelong friend. Associate Editor William Forbis, substituted for him in Argentina. Last week the two friends met again briefly in New York, just before Payne flew off to his new assignment. They compared notes on the frustrations of reporting a paradoxical land of blustering dictatorship and seemingly casual living, where bullyboys riot in the streets and solid citizens pretend not to notice. Both Payne and Forbis had their tense moments with the bullyboys, and both were arrested and questioned by Juan Perón's police...
...recent local elections, the Moslem League Party, founders of Pakistan and hitherto its absolute rulers, found itself overwhelmingly repudiated by the voters. It was faced with two alternatives: to seize power through the army, after the classical pattern of one-party dictatorship, or to rule by the traditional democratic process of political horse-trading and parliamentary maneuver...
...times, celebrated the third anniversary of his dethronement by calling in Paris newsmen and weeping like a Nile crocodile over the plight of his former subjects. Blubbered fat, foolish Farouk, while sipping unloaded mineral water (booze was never one of his vices): "The revolution has turned into a tyrannical dictatorship. The army officers, the so-called 'liberators,' have become small despots. Egypt is now a police state and the Egyptians are a captive people...