Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mission. He hoped in time to end the Algerian Moslems' four-year-old war for independence. But first he had to end the threat of civil war posed by the insurgent French soldiers and settlers of Algeria. Only the day before, Leon Delbecque, dynamic leader of the rebel junta (TIME, June 9), his once boundless faith in De Gaulle shaken by his idol's failure to name a single insurgent leader to a government post, had appeared in Paris to warn the general that unless De Gaulle revamped his Cabinet, his trip to Algeria would end in disaster...
First Marshal Merom Bradhman '58 will lead the class in the march from the Yard, assisted by Second Marshal Dale W. Junta '58 and Third Marshal Robert D. Storey '58. The Band will provide music for the march...
Coach Jack Barnaby's tennis team followed the idyllic spring pattern as it went undefeated to win the Eastern Intercollegiate League. The match of the year was the Crimson's outstanding 6-3 defeat of Yale which saw varsity Captain Dale Junta climax his Harvard career by defeating Yale's Donald Dell, one of the country's best young players in three sets. Between tennis and squash, Barnaby's teams amassed a 27 and 1 record for him this year. Again the record speaks for itself...
Home from exile, Machado carefully nurtured the notion that the Communists were a respectable domestic political party rather than part of a subversive international movement. The three military members of the junta, led by Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, gave the Reds free rein on the idealistic theory that checking them would be undemocratic. But after Nixon's life was endangered by Red-led mobs, the junta's two civilians, Eugenio Mendoza and Bias Lamberti, resigned in protest over the easy treatment of Communists...
...replace them, Larrazabal chose two moderate civilians: Treasury Minister Arturo Sosa and Junta Secretary Edgard Sanabria. And, to help gloss over the reasons for the junta split, he announced at week's end the enactment of the long-awaited law laying down ground rules for elections next November...