Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week in classic fashion: an army coup, mobs in the streets, hired assassins, overthrow of the legitimate government. Death and revolution struck on a Monday morning in Iraq. Down went the pro-Western government of Nuri asSaid, and of his young British-educated monarch, King Feisal. The military junta that seized control of Baghdad proclaimed Iraq now a republic, and got off an exultant message of comradeship to Egypt's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...five months since Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal's junta took over Venezuela, Larrazábal has gone perplexingly out of his way to be kind to Communists. Last week, as the Provisional President held his first regular weekly press conference at Caracas' White Palace, his reasoning seemed to come a little clearer. Seven times during the 45-minute session the crisply khakied admiral was asked if he would be candidate for President when regular elections are held next November. Seven times he hemmed, hawed and refused to push his khaki cap out of the campaign ring...
...politically naive balcony generals seemed merely confused by events, but diehards on the 72-man insurgent junta in Algiers were plainly disenchanted by De Gaulle. They were angered by his insistence that the insurrectionary Public Safety Committees must get out of politics, and by his refusal to endorse their plan for complete integration of Algeria into France. They were alarmed by the report that, as a gesture to Morocco's King Mohammed V, De Gaulle was trying to find a graceful way to release Rebel Chieftain Mohammed ben Bella, whom the French had kidnaped off a Moroccan plane late...
...into their own hands, the die-hards prepared a parliamentary mousetrap for Paratroop General Jacques Massu, who had pledged his soldierly loyalty to De Gaulle on De Gaulle's visit to Algiers a fortnight ago. By careful prearrangement, a decoy faction among the diehards noisily proposed that the junta adopt a resolution denouncing De Gaulle and all his works. When Massu, as co-president of the junta, protested, the remainder of the diehards introduced a "moderate" counter-resolution. And when the decoy faction grumblingly accepted the second resolution, Massu was convinced that he had achieved a great compromise...
Typing Trouble. In Paris the junta's resolution was seen for what it was: open defiance of De Gaulle's authority. Deliberately misinterpreting De Gaulle's speeches, the junta expressed its delight "at having been able to obtain the promise of total integration of Algeria into Metropolitan France." In an excess of arrogance, the resolution went on to demand "the disappearance" of political parties in France, and the formation of "a genuine government of public safety...