Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Palace, De Gaulle presented each of the four delighted members of the ruling military junta with one of France's most distinguished medals, the golden sunburst of a "Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor...
When De Gaulle departed, things were definitely looking up for France's grand design-at least in Ecuador. Then came trouble. Though De Gaulle had given each of the four junta members the Grand Officer, he had bestowed the much more exclusive "Grand-Croix of the Legion of Honor" on the heads of state in all the other countries he visited...
Plotting against the government has long been a national sport in Bolivia. And denouncing subversive plots-real or imagined-is the government's favorite way of knocking off political enemies. Last week Air Force General René Barrientos, 45, head of the military junta that ousted President Víctor Paz Estenssoro last November, was suddenly crying plot as if he had invented the game. Barrientos' troops rounded up 26 of the ex-President's supporters and disarmed the 2,000-man national police. The cops, fumed Barrientos, while calling for reorganization of the force, were...
Even if Barrientos really had something to fear in the way of a coup, there was also plenty of political ploy in his reaction. His junta is expected to call presidential elections in another six to nine months, and Barrientos is running hard for the top job. Widely popular within the military and among the peasants, he spends almost as much time on the stump as he does behind his desk. Nothing suits him so much as jumping behind the controls of an air force DC-3 and flying off to some remote pocket of the Andean country to shake...
...each day. All the while, the Saigon government has been stumbling from coup to coup. In the latest unhappy episode, the U.S. and the Vietnamese approached a parting of the ways. The U.S. was insistent about trying to sustain a group of civilian politicians against overthrow by a junta of disgusted young generals, has come close to a parting of the ways, with Vietnamese Commander in Chief Nguyen Khanh loudly denouncing U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor and the U.S. muttering dire threats about curtailing or withholding aid to Viet...