Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, bands of Castroite guerrillas have been roaming the Dominican hills, waging a hit-and-run war against the three-man junta that rules the Caribbean island nation. The guerrillas call themselves the 14th of June Movement (in imitation of Castro's 26th of July group), and estimates of their strength run to 250 men. While they pose no immediate threat to the government, their nuisance bombs and countryside ambushes make everybody nervous...
Antigovernment Dominicans cried massacre, charged that the troops had cold-bloodedly gunned down the youths as they tried to surrender. But the incident's effect went deeper than that. Among the dead was Antonio Barreiro, 27, godson of Emilio de los Santos, chief of the ruling junta itself. De los Santos resigned as soon as he heard the news, making public a bitter split among the men who have been running the country on behalf of the army since the ouster of President Juan Bosch last September. De los Santos wanted a conciliatory approach to the rebels, but after...
...province south of Saigon, which feeds the capital. For all the fanfare with which they were welcomed by Diem's critics, the generals who succeeded the slain President have demonstrated an unsettling lack of political leadership; recently, the civilian chiefs of nine northern provinces relayed a plea to junta chairman Major General Duong Van ("Big") Minh: "Please send us orders...
...from the NATO meeting in Paris to Saigon, for his second Viet Nam inspection visit in three months. Joined by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Chief John A. McCone, McNamara plunged into briefings at the U.S. military mission. Then he spent an afternoon conferring with Big Minh and the other junta chiefs...
...that the D.R.P. has a whopping, 45-seat parliamentary plurality. Though Park pleaded for national unity, Opposition Leader Yun Po Sun, who barely lost the presidential election, boycotted the Assembly's opening session, and other dissident Assemblymen threatened to investigate the corruption prevalent under Park's military junta...