Word: guarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That caricature has tended to obscure what should be remembered as a highly distinguished military career. Fro the time of his boyhood in Columbus, LeMay was fascinated with flight. At Ohio State, he busied himself with ROTC In 1928 he obtained a reserve commission and left for a National Guard summer camp. His classmates tore off to Los Angeles for weekends, but LeMay in his singleminded fashion often hung back to vivisect engines and study weather charts and navigation. With his accumulating skill as pilot, mechanic and navigator, he was summoned after seven years in fighters to fly the first...
Confusion Compounded. At once, the capital's rumor mills, always idling, started to whirr in high gear with the message that there had been a coup and that key officers had been arrested. Riot police carrying wicker shields and tear gas began to cruise around the city, on guard for demonstrations; there were none. The confusion was compounded when a high-ranking government official leaked word that a coup attempt had been thwarted. Other officials denied there had been such an attempt, and President Thieu felt it necessary to go on nationwide radio and television to announce that there...
Three times in the past three decades, Panamanian Politician Arnulfo Arias has been elected President of his small (pop. 1.3 million) country. Twice, in 1941 and 1951, he was thrown out of power. Both times he was ousted by Panama's National Guard, the country's only military force, which took exception to his highhanded policies and acted jointly with Arias' political enemies. The same thing happened again last week. Only eleven days after his inauguration for his latest term, the National Guard once more ousted Arias, who fled to safety in the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone...
...main factors were behind the coup. For one thing, even though the Guard had supported him during the election, Arias reawakened the officers' longstanding animosity by trying to weaken the Guard's grip on the country's political life. He threatened to transfer, and in one case exile, a number of the leading officers. In addition, after he won a landslide victory over former Finance Minister David Samudio, Arias outraged many Panamanians by undertaking a series of unsavory political maneuvers designed to give his followers a majority in the 42-seat National Assembly...
...officers decided to strike first. The co-leaders of the coup were Lieut. Colonel Omar Torrijos, the Guard's executive officer, who had been ordered to leave Panama, and Major Boris Martinez, who is the commander of Chiriqui province military zone. At their bidding one evening last week, their brother officers quietly dispatched units from the 3,900-man force to shoo civilians off the streets of the country's two main cities, Panama City and Colón, seize the radio stations and close the international airport. Arias, 67, who is experienced in such matters, at once...