Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Convinced that President Juan Bosch was veering too far left, Dominican Republic military leaders turned him out last September. In his place, they set up what they considered a reliably docile civilian triumvirate too weak to do any harm-or any good. But when the junta went through its inevitable first shake-up last December, out went one of its members and in stepped Donald Reid Cabral, 40, a Santo Domingo auto dealer and the frail (5 ft. 6 in., 132 Ibs.) but strong-willed son of a Scots banker. Since then, Reid has clearly become more equal than...
Fresh Water. In January, the military junta that preceded Khanh moved to retake the area. A massive force of 600 troops, backed by a dozen armored personnel carriers, pushed into Phumy against only sporadic fire. Surprisingly, a mere 18 hard-core Viet Cong troops held the village, and they withdrew, expecting the army to stay only a few days. Behind the soldiers, however, came a team of civilian officials and American AID men, who plunged into an ambitious recovery program...
...from new military regimes that take power by force. In the past three years, six Latin American governments-Argentina, Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Honduras-have been overthrown by military coups. And in every case, temporary U.S. nonrecognition has proved more embarrassing to Washington than to the junta...
Such a compromise course might possibly stave off disaster while minimizing, for the Johnson Administration, the risk of a major war in an election year. But it all had a familiar ring, since McNamara had expressed many of the same hopes about the short-lived junta that preceded Khanh...
Shotgun Semester. U.S. officials hastily huddled with Junta Boss General Nguyen Khanh, who had worries of his own; a flurry of rumors suggested that army rivals were plotting to overthrow his regime. Saigon police began a district-by-district sweep through the capital, rounded up more than 100 suspected Viet Cong collaborators. But it was doubtful that the Saigon government, its once efficient security police debilitated by endless reorganization, could guarantee the protection of Americans should the Viet Cong continue the terrorist attacks. As a result, U.S. forces for the first time had to take up direct police functions...