Word: junta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military junta was not yet sure of keeping power. As the chanting and dancing in the Grande Rue went on through the night under a mellow tropical moon, the leftish United Democratic Front organized a committee of public safety and demanded a date for popular elections and the reopening of the student newspaper whose suppression by Lescot had touched off the explosion...
Betancourt and his seven-man junta promised to step down when a new President is chosen by popular vote next spring. Meantime they were busy with plans to turn the income from Venezuela's fabulous oil wealth to the people's account through low-cost housing and better social security, and to weed out the grafters from previous regimes...
...President Isaias Medina's files, the junta turned up secret lists enumerating $7,000,000 in bribes to deputies, high army officers, journalists. Also uncovered: an excellent photograph of careless President Medina in the company of naked prostitutes. The new Government said that the picture was too obscene for publication...
...Venezuela, the world's third largest oil exporter, had a new, revolutionary government. This week the new junta, headed by President Rómulo Betancourt, seemed to have the confidence of Spruille Braden...
...Indalecáo Prieto, Spain's Socialist ex-Defense Minister and Negrin's bitter enemy. Prieto is supported by the Junta Espaãola de Liberatián (moderate's and Socialists) whose President Alvaro de Al-bornoz calls Negrin "Russia's candidate...