Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passed muster, and was flown home again. On its flight to the Dominican Republic, the Bundy mission stopped in Puerto Rico and won Bosch's approval of Guzmán. Rebel Leader Caamaño also agreed to go along. But not Tony Imbert and his embattled loyalist junta...
Storming the Palace. The question was how much Imbert could do about it. From the first, the U.S. had never considered him as more than an emergency stopgap. He was encouraged to form his loyalist junta at a time when only U.S. troops stood between the Dominican Republic and a rebel victory. Loyalist troops were demoralized; most of them refused to budge from their bases in the countryside. Imbert, at least, was one man ready to fight. In the first days of the revolt, he had collected some 300 troops, who stormed the National Palace and then held...
...narrowly managed to escape. Barrientos also faces challenges within his own military, where pressures are growing against his increasingly autocratic ways (TIME, May 21). But he made it clear to both sides last week that he did not intend to retreat. "There is no compromise," he cried, "with the junta-or with Barrientos...
Aggravated by one thing or another, most of the 160-man press corps has soured on the U.S. position and flocked to rebel headquarters, where people seemed anxious to make their case to reporters. Predisposed to side with the underdog against a Latin American military junta and against U.S. military intervention, many of the correspondents wrote glowing accounts of their fleeting interviews with the rebels...
...fighting alongside the leftist rebels. Its effect has been to give the Communist world a rallying cry, to create dozens of Dominican Communist martyrs and to turn an increasing number of rebels against the U.S." Said New York Timesman Tad Szulc: "The U.S. finds itself identified with a military junta that is widely hated, and it may be standing on the threshold of a violent showdown with the highly popular rebel movement...