Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military commander on the spot was General Carter Magruder, chief of U.N. forces, whose command includes the South Korean army as well as all U.S. troops. U.S. embassy boss was Marshall Green, experienced, red-haired charge d'affaires in Seoul. Almost as soon as the sound of the junta's guns rattled Seoul's windows, both were out of bed and drafting public statements condemning the revolt and backing the government of Premier Chang. Neither waited to consult Washington. General Magruder urged that Korean armed forces chiefs "use their authority and influence to see that control...
...junta felt justifiably confident that General Magruder would not use the two American divisions under his command to contest the coup. When Magruder and Green arrived in midmorning to argue with General Chang and his four fellow junta chiefs, the Korean generals brushed off the Americans with a flat refusal to end the revolt...
Premier's Problems. Was General Chang the new boss? The man who planned the coup was not Chang but his powerful colleague on the junta, Major General Pak Chung Hi, 44. Reportedly, Pak's representatives went to Chang, told him that if he did not come to lead the coup, "we will have to kill you." Even as the uprising got under way, General Chang rushed off to see Magruder; for most of the first day, it was not certain whether Chang would lead the revolt or quell...
Previous award winners are Langley Keyes (soccer and lacrosse), Jefferson Coolidge (football and hockey), Robert Rittenburg (track), James Jorgenson (swimming), John Simourian (football and baseball), Dale Junta (tennis), Robert Foster (football and wrestling), and Dyke Benjamin (cross country and track...
Unvindicated morally, facing a growing though still underground challenge, the junta is in a quandary. Its members are committed by Cemal Gursel's word to hold free elections by October at the latest. But if they hang Menderes and Bayar, how will the predictably sharpened rancor among Democrats weigh in the election? Cynics suggest that the junta should have shot Menderes and Bayar as soon as they got their hands on them. Sighed an Istanbul businessman: "The greatest error was attempting to carry out the trials in a legal...