THE LONG ROAD BACK
One by one they are coming back, on the long road from military to civilian rule. In recent months, it has been El Salvador, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil; before that, Portugal, Greece, and Spain. Each time it happens, it offers further proof for the proposition that authoritarian rule does in time yield to democracy, whereas totalitarianism is for ever, unless a friendly big neighbor intervenes, as in Grenada. (How long is “for ever”? Let us wait to see what happens in the Soviet Union one of these years.)
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