Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other leaders of the regime that Kirdar had once served. Present at the obsequies in Istanbul's Sisli mosque was a menacingly large crowd of 1,500 mourners, many genuinely bereaved but many others expressly come to show defiance of General Cemal Gursel's ruling military junta. To do so, they chose to consider Kirdar a martyr...
...government, its vital branches have already been organized, Castelerio explained. At first there will be rule by a junta, but elections will be held "within a few months." Castro supporters "of course" would not be allowed to run for office...
BACKING. The President, at his televised press conference, laid special emphasis on an announcement that "we have today recognized the government of El Salvador." Implicit in his announcement was a caution to the new junta, dominated by El Salvador's legendary "14 families," whose indifference to the nation's poor has been conspicuous even by Latin American standards. The junta, said Kennedy pointedly, "has announced its determination to bring about free and democratic elections in that country, and it seeks solutions for the economic and social difficulties . . . We hope to be able to assist El Salvador in reaching...
...Overboard. Revolutionist Henrique Galváo, 65, who had seized the Santa Maria twelve days before and some 2,800 miles away in the name of the Portuguese Liberation junta, refused to dock at Recife until he was assured of supplies, fuel, and permission to sail off again. U.S. Rear Admiral Allen E. Smith Jr. boarded the Santa Maria to discuss the fate of the 42 U.S. passengers, was met by Galváo wearing a black beret, a khaki uniform with shoulder boards, and an armband in the green and red of Portugal's flag. Swashbuckling Galv...
Just before Christmas, the junta began buying third-class tickets for the January cruise of the Santa Maria, but after purchasing 30 tickets, the junta ran out of money. It was decided that the ticket holders would carry arms in their hand luggage, while the remaining 40 men in the plot would board ship pretending to be relatives and friends saying goodbye to passengers. Then they would remain as stowaways. With their eye on world-wide publicity, the junta urged a Caracas newspaper editor to send a reporter and photographer with them. Long accustomed to the pipe dreams of anti...