Word: junta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Heading the four-man junta that took over is Navy Commander Ramón Castro Jijón, 48, who immediately declared that the new regime was anti-Communist and democratic. In the first 24 hours, the junta imposed martial law, established a strict curfew, outlawed the Communist Party, and pledged to go after bands of pro-Castro terrorists roaming the backhands. Next year's presidential election was canceled, but the military officers promised to call a convention to draft a new constitution "when opportune." The U.S. would probably recognize the junta. But whether sober soldiers, governing by martial...
...each other's clothes, spent time in the same jail, were both packed off to exile by the ruling dictatorships. In the early 1940s Leoni helped Betancourt found A.D. He personally organized its labor wing and was rewarded with the labor ministry (Betancourt was provisional President) in the junta that ruled from 1945 until it was overthrown in 1948. When Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez was toppled in 1958 and Betancourt became President, Leoni took over A.D.'s leadership, strengthening the labor and peasant ties that form the basis of the party's strength...
Just one year ago, after a bitterly emotional campaign, 1,730,000 Peruvians went to the polls to choose among the three top presidential candidates-and produced a deadlock so explosive that a military junta annulled the whole thing. This week, in a somewhat calmer atmosphere, the voters will try again with the same faces, the same ideologies, and the same soldiers looking over their shoulders...
...prostitution is the world's oldest profession and gambling the most profitable, what have you got when you combine the two? A gold mine-or so South Korea's ruling junta thought when it dreamed up Walker Hill, a sprawling, 156-acre complex of gaming tables and hot-pillow hotels designed to entice the tourist trade and, not incidentally, the 40,000 U.S. troops stationed in Korea. Out to Manila and Macao went the call for croupiers, and four Americans from Las Vegas moved in to manage the action. But when it opened up ten miles outside Seoul...
...guests were somewhat surprised to find that the showers worked, sheets were on the beds, and the roast beef in the dining room was not bad at all. But without its two major attractions, Walker Hill, in all its Motel Modrun splendor, was still half empty. Because of the junta's slogan, "Austerity for Progress," South Koreans were not allowed inside unless they came as guests of foreigners. This policy might have to be changed. As one observer put it: "If the government wants to make a go of this place, they'll have to let the South...