Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five weeks after indecisive Turkish elections substituted shaky civilian rule for a military junta, the nation still had no functioning government. But after prodding by Junta Strongman Cemal Gursel, now President, squabbling politicians last week finally formed a Cabinet, result of a shotgun wedding between the two parties that most strenuously campaigned against each other and then received an almost equal share of the popular vote...
Wily ex-President Ismet Inonu, 77, became Premier, while ten other members of his Republican People's Party received Cabinet posts. To the Justice Party, political heirs of the late Democratic Premier Adnan Menderes-Inonu's archrival, who was executed by the junta last September-also went eleven portfolios, including the deputy premiership, important in view of Inonu...
...Kennedy Administration has little fondness for Park's military junta, which has dissolved the legislature, curbed freedom of the press, and taken an estimated 40,000 political prisoners (most of whom have been released). But with Communist pressure mounting in Asia, the U.S. badly needs a stable government in South Korea. Without U.S. support, General Park's government would soon topple-and the alternative might be far worse. Said one U.S. official: "What we don't want is a never-ending stream of coups and colonels in South Korea...
...before a Seoul court last week went ex-Lieut. General Chang Do Yung, onetime leader of the junta now headed by Park. Among other things, the defendant stood charged with "obstructing the military takeover." Translation: Chang had only belatedly agreed to front for the rest of the military plotters, and then solely upon threat to his life. Further, after the coup, he had failed to lock-step with bamboo-tough little Park. Since the junta's takeover, some 40,000 people have been arrested, and though most have been released, the police remain capricious. Recently, when a Korean professor...
...recast its aid program. The former multiplicity of projects has been slashed in favor of an austere accent on the basics that the Korean economy still lacks-more and improved transport, communications and power facilities. Whatever reservations the U.S. may retain about dealing with South Korea's ruling junta-it did, after all, come to power by deposing ex-Premier John Chang, a good friend of the U.S.-Park himself seems anxious to be accommodating...