Word: dictatorship
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...does Batista want to catch Sáchez Arango that Cuban police have kidnaped and beaten or tortured at least two Cubans known to be his friends to force them to divulge his hiding place. But Sánchez Arango, who learned all the conspiratorial tricks fighting the Machado dictatorship 20 years ago, has so far led a charmed life, taking great risks to keep on operating almost under the cops' noses. Last week TIME Correspondent Clara Applegate met the redoubtable revolutionary chief at one of his Cuban hideaways for the first press interview he has given since...
...states to the organization to their ability and willingness, in the judgment of the member nations, to carry out the obligations to the charter as defined above. The so-called Chinese People's Republic is constitutionally unable to do so since it officially declares itself to be a "dictatorship" based on "democratic centralism" (Articles I and II of the Organic Law of the Central Government of the Chinese People's Republic). This is the basic principle of Communist totalitarianism and excludes freedom of discussion or criticism of government, that is, it excludes freedom and democracy altogether...
...time when Communist dictatorship seems to be badly shaken inside the U.S.S.R. and in its satellite empire, the admission of the so-called Chinese People's Republic to the United Nations would restore the prestige and authority of the Soviet government. It would help to destroy the hope of the enslaved peoples for ultimate freedom. This hope is one of the chief deterrents which has restrained the Kremlin from risking a worldwide conflict...
...took out after the Reds' "poor but honest candidate" for the presidency, punctured his chances of rolling up a big vote by pointing out that he owned 30 Rio apartment houses. When he launched an attack on strong-arm generals in the new government-which had replaced the dictatorship-five thugs beat him up on the street. Later he was cornered by hoodlums in the elevator of his apartment, escaped in the scuffle with only a cheekbone cracked. As his popularity spread, his voice became familiar over a Rio radio station and he was elected to the city council...
TURKEY became the Middle East's most modern state in a generation and through the efforts of one man. Kemal Ataturk, a rough, hard-drinking neurotic who combined traces of Lincoln's vision and Stalin's ruthlessness, established the Turkish Republic, ran it like a dictatorship, topped it off with a tailor-made opposition. Modern Turkey, striving to be even more modern, still needs capital, roads, teachers, more private enterprise...