Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imprisonment, he feigned illness, was sent to a Lisbon hospital and walked out disguised as a doctor. Escaping Portugal, Galvão went first to the Argentine and turned up in Venezuela in November 1959, where he got in touch with other exiled leaders of the Portuguese Liberation Junta, a widespread but ineffectual anti-Salazar group. His plan: to capture at sea the Portuguese liner Santa Maria on one of its regular Caribbean cruises...
Under Galvão's direction, young men of the junta went into training at a "vacation camp" near Caracas and practiced calisthenics and hand-to-hand fighting. A girl sympathizer got a job as telephone operator on the Santa Maria. During several voyages she memorized the ship's communications system and noted the stations taken by the crew during night watches...
...unknown when he was brought out of retirement by army juniors to head their victorious junta. General Gursel, 66, is becoming Turkey's most popular figure. A simple and conservative sort, he has forbidden display of his picture alongside Ataturk's in government offices, rides about in an open Jeep through Menderes' rural strongholds, talking to the peasants almost as if they were his children...
Gursel is also unquestionably boss. He dealt with the chief challenge to his authority six weeks ago, when he summarily fired 14 younger members of the ruling junta headed by fanatical Colonel Alpaslan Turkes. These young zealots talked of setting up a thought-control office and remaking the country along authoritarian lines. They were also responsible for bringing charges of adultery and other smear-type cases against Menderes and the other fallen Democratic leaders on the ground that the Turkish peasants understood immorality but would never understand what a crime against the constitution was. When they tried to push through...
...junta still seems edgy at underground rumblings of Menderes sentiment, so much so that it often confuses free speech with conspiracy. One defense lawyer was jailed last fortnight for remarking in private conversation that evidence seemed lacking to convict any of the 520 defendants unless the verdict was prearranged. Two weeks ago the two lawyers defending Menderes were arrested and accused of planning to circulate a pamphlet arguing his case, and two newspapers were temporarily closed for printing a pro-Democratic declaration. Last week the junta jailed 65 members of the legally banned Democratic Party, including at least one trial...