Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week: Turkey's Strongman General Cemal Gursel, 66 and portly (5 ft. 10 in., 200 Ibs.), had suffered a partial paralysis of the left arm and side that also affected his speech. As relatives secretly gathered at his bedside in Ankara, anxious members of the ruling junta held hurried conferences with Gursel's doctors to determine what to say to the public and when...
General Gursel had been struck at a bad time. A month ago he had expelled 14 young junta officers who wanted to postpone elections and the return of democratic government until the army had enforced drastic authoritarian reforms on virtually every phase of Turkish life. The mass trial of ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and 520 other Turkish ex-leaders, after arousing international uneasiness about Turkey's juridical system with arguments about shaggy dogs and mistresses, was at last beginning to produce serious evidence of the old regime's abuse of power...
...Mohammed Naguib, original "strongman" of Egypt's 1952 revolution against King Farouk, was once again at liberty. Naguib, who proved too good to be strong, was first slapped into confinement when he showed signs of developing mass popularity and thereby outgrowing his role as front man for a junta led by Egypt's current President, Gamal Abdel Nasser. Though Naguib was freed last July on the anniversary of his revolution, his new status passed unnoticed until last week, because he continues to enjoy life in the same well-accoutered villa that was his "prison...
...missing two: Denmark (whose parliamentarians have just been through a general election) and General Cemal Gursel's Turkey, which under the rule of a junta no longer has any parliamentarians to send...
...Salvador. Five weeks after the overthrow of President José Maria Lemus, the U.S. is still withholding recognition from the six-man revolutionary junta until the State Department's Special Envoy Allan Stewart checks reports that the junta is a front for Castroites and Communists...