Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were licked, most of the leaders of the army revolt trooped into the U.S. embassy, asked U.S. Ambassador Tapley Bennett to arrange a ceasefire. He called Wessin y Wessin, who immediately agreed. Fearing reprisals, dozens of rebels, including Acting President Molina, fled to political asylum in foreign embassies. A junta composed of pro-Wessin y Wessin officers was sworn in as a provisional government...
...establishing order meant delivering control of the island republic to a right-wing junta headed by General Wessin y Wessin...
Even if the United States manages, by means of the 14,000 man force it is building up, to shoulder the army junta into power, the Communists will be playing from an understandably stronger position at the polls or in the next (and practically inevitable) revolution. Next time there may be no Bosch standing between the junta and the Communists...
...Barrientos, 45, the air force general who bosses Bolivia's revolutionary junta, is a sort of Steve Canyon of the Andes - handsome, dashing, and almost too lucky to be true. Since 1962, he has survived seven assassination at tempts: four by gunfire, three by bombs. Last year, just after President Victor Paz Estenssoro refused to accept Barrientos as a vice-presidential candidate, an assailant's bullet ricocheted off the U.S. pilot wings on the general's jacket, causing a slight wound. The incident made Barrientos such a hero that Paz was forced to accept...
Barrientos now wants to be Bolivia's duly elected President, but faces opposition because of his reluctance to abide by the constitution and resign as head of the junta six months before the Sept. 26 elections. One night as he was driving to Cochabamba, a gunman on a motorcycle roared out of the darkness, pumping bullets into the general's Jeep. Barrientos' bulletproof vest, say his aides, stopped two of the slugs; a third hit him in the left buttock. In no time at all, political and nonpolitical friends were beating a path to his bedside...