Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeing everyone from the ruling junta to industrial and political leaders, the U.S. mission gave Venezuelans a chance to be heard as well as to be persuaded. Nonetheless, as the mission left the government felt obliged to say that it still opposes all restrictions. The talks will continue later in Washington...
...continent where general-presidents have all too often tried to perpetuate themselves in office. Aramburu's conduct had an exemplary effect well beyond the borders of Argentina. Items: ¶Colombia's five-man military junta, which will hold an election March 16. says: "We shall turn over our powers to a civilian President at 3 p.m.. Aug. 7. 1958." ¶Venezuela's provisional President. Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal. promises elections for a constituent assembly before the year...
Treading with care. Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal. 46, eased Venezuela through its first week of freedom after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. The handsome navy chief, setting the pace for his five-man junta, spoke in tones of moderation, by week's end appeared to have won the support of nearly every sector of Venezuelan life...
...supporters in the armed forces was done with tact and no ugly rolling of heads. Gratefully, new Defense Minister Jesús Maria Castro León called to pledge the armed forces' allegiance. Next evening Journalist Fabricio Ojeda, 29, founder of the civilian "patriotic junta." which welded Venezuelans of every political hue into an anti-Pérez Jiménez striking force, added his promise of loyalty...
...Peru's Manuel Odria, 60, seized military power in October 1948, headed a junta until 1950, when he had himself elected President. He ran off what was supposed to be a well-planned election in June 1956, watched in dismay as his hand-picked successor lost, then slipped off into obscurity...