Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year, for the second time in his life, Egypt's President Mohammed Naguib made the pilgrimage to Mecca. Dressed in a ceremonial robe of unstitched white cloth, the earnest, personable chief of Egypt's military junta left Cairo by air with an entourage of 75. In Jidda, the Arabian seaport by which most pilgrims enter, the Naguib party was met by Crown Prince Saud and eleven emirs, all sons of ancient, wily King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud...
While he was running Costa Rica in 1948-49 as head of a revolutionary junta, Jose ("Don Pepe") Figueres had his hands full with the aftermath of civil war, but he still found time to start turning his country into the moderately socialistic state he wanted. Figueres nationalized the banks, slapped a 10% tax on capital, raised wages by government decree. Complained one wealthy cattleman: "God made the world in six days, but look at what Figueres is trying to do in one night...
...after Farouk's exile and made young (1½) Fuad, Farouk's son and heir to the throne, just another Egyptian. It left Egypt in the charge of four soldiers, who now have new official titles: Premier Naguib, the "public-relations man" of the military junta, his Vice Premier, Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, 35, the real strongman of the bloodless revolution, and two other Egyptian army officers loyal to Nasser, and therefore to Naguib...
...Swiss-born druggist and a Guatemalan mother, Arbenz, now 39, is a dry, dogmatic professional officer who taught at the national military academy before he joined the army junta that fought and won the revolution. He took office with relatively little political experience and a few burning obsessions: ardent nationalism, a conviction that the country's worst problems can be solved by drastic land reforms, a deep-seated hatred of "foreign monopolies," i.e., United Fruit Co. and other U.S.-owned firms operating in Guatemala. No Communist himself, he nevertheless accepted the Communists around him at their face value...
Lieut. Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser is be coming the real power in Egypt's military junta-more important even than Naguib, the reluctant dictator...