Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were reported to have swept 20 miles to Babile and taken positions to the south and east of Jijiga, from which they had been driven last August. The Somalis admitted that their forces in the Ogaden were in a "tactical retreat," and on Thursday the Mogadishu government called for general mobilization "in the face of a threatened Ethiopian invasion...
...Guatemala, voters will go to the polls on March 5 to select a successor to General Kjell Eugenio Laugerud, 48, a take-charge officer who has run the country since 1974. The election will offer limited choices. Besides General Ricardo Peralta Mendez, who directed reconstruction after the country's savage 1976 earthquake and is the candidate of the powerful Christian Democratic Party, the field includes one other general and a colonel...
Barring an upset, probably General Romeo Lucas Garcia, a former Defense Minister, will win. In any case, Guatemalans classify their elections almost like French wines: '66 and '70 were fairly honest years, '74 was widely regarded as a fraud. On that basis, '78 is apt to be an interesting, possibly violent year...
...Honduras, the President, General Juan Melgar, 48, took power in a barracks coup three years ago and has since run the country by decree. Last month Melgar announced that he would convene a constituent assembly in 1979 to "reform" the constitution. This could eventually lead to the election of a civilian President. It could also lead to the constitutional ratification of what Melgar seized by force...
...Salvador will not choose another President until 1982, which, as many Salvadorians see it, is just as well. Before the rigged election that brought General Carlos Humberto Romero, 51, to power in 1977, more than a hundred people were slain by Romero's soldiers in campaign violence. Congressional elections are scheduled for next month, but the anti-Romero Christian Democratic Party has announced a boycott. Power, as a result, will remain in the hands of the soldiers and the few rich families that have wielded it for generations...