Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This week Guatemala, after four years of skidding toward the Soviet orbit and ten days of bombing and strafing by anti-Communist rebel invaders, found its President's Marxism and his Communist kibitzers too much. Top army officers forced him to quit, and took power with a junta of three colonels...
Would the Ambassador come to his house for an urgent conference? Farewell Address. Through deserted, shuttered streets went Peurifoy. Five top-ranking colonels were there, and they wanted to know whether the U.S. Ambassador would recognize a junta headed by Diaz, and help stop the fighting. What Peurifoy had to say, in the 2¾-hour talk, was not reported. But at the end Diaz and two other officers went to give Arbenz the word. The President, forced to bow for the first time in his stubborn life, burst into a rage, stormed and argued. Finally he acceded, and went...
...command." He supported Arbenz from duty and in the belief that Arbenz' land reform was good; there was nothing to prove that he saw Red influence over the President as a critical problem. But his first acts in power were to 1) form a three-man junta that included a vocal antiCommunist, 2) outlaw the Communist Party and 3) fire Colonel Rogelio Cruz Wer, head of Guatemala's notorious police and the Reds' only important sympathizer of high military rank...
...hardly out of sight before his Deputy Premier-and the real boss of Egypt's military junta-handsome, 36-year-old Gamal Abdel Nasser, curtly announced that Naguib had submitted his resignation as Premier, but would stay on in his honorary job of President. Four Cabinet ministers (who had unwisely backed Naguib against Nasser) had also resigned for reasons of health, said Nasser, adding that henceforth he himself would be the new Premier...
...fought the battle for power. On one side was President Mohammed Naguib, who proposed to stay in power by counterrevolution: disbanding the military council (R.C.C.) in favor of a civilian alliance with the oldtime politicians. On the other side was Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, moving spirit of the revolutionary junta, who appealed for the people's support to continue the revolution, with himself and his handful of officer allies in firm command...