Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of this was TIME'S two-column story (May 4, 1953) on Nasser, which described him as "a lean young field officer, just turned 35, who does not even hold Cabinet rank. Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser is becoming the real power in Egypt's military junta−more important even than Naguib, the reluctant dictator...
...government. Naguib, appearing on the balcony, ignored the agitators and told the crowd: ''I owe you my life. Everything will go in the right direction." The mob responded by dispersing. As a gesture to the evident public dissatisfaction with the behind-the-scenes rule of the junta, the R.C.C. announced vague plans to create a parliamentlike assembly. The worst seemed over. Nasser was still running the show but had lost prestige. Naguib, whose position as leader had its origins in a fiction, had found his people eager to take it as a fact...
...rule the country, the officers first set up a temporary military junta, then ordered an election for Congressmen who would choose a President. One candidate was a brooding, ulcer-afflicted lawyer named Dumarsais Estime, son of black peasant parents who lived in the voodoo-haunted pine forests near Mount La Selle. His strongly anti-mulatto position made him the idol of the blacks, and won him the election...
...Used. The very day Naguib's military junta ousted King Farouk and took over Egypt, Lieut. Colonel Nasser, chief of the Revolutionary Command Council, dispatched an urgent message to one of the most powerful men in Egypt: Hassan el Hodeiby, the Brotherhood's new Supreme Guide. Would the Brotherhood please support the new regime...
...Koshare troop by appointing two representatives to attend a performance of the sacred dances, to see for themselves that no mock was being made of the gods? And to show that the white chief spoke with no forked tongue, he sent two round-trip railroad tickets to La Junta...