Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somewhere amid the onion domes of Moscow last week the leaders of 80-odd Communist parties from all over the world were apparently locked in titanic struggle. After two solid weeks of argument, the supreme junta of world Communism was still threshing out the grand party line. Either way, it still meant to sweep the world, but Mao Tse-tung was arguing for more militancy and bellicosity than Nikita Khrushchev thinks necessary...
...replace Lemus the moderates chose a six-man junta: three army officers, three civilians. Colonel Miguel Angel Castillo, at 44 the oldest junta member, was customs-guard chief under Lemus; Colonel César Yáñez Urias. 40, was a key officer at San Carlos Fort, where the country's ammunition is kept; Major Rubén Alonso Rosales, 35, shared in command of El Zapote Fort overlooking the presidential palace, where the army stored most of its weapons. The civilians-Dr. Fabio Castillo, 42, and Lawyers René Fortin Magaña, 29, and Ricardo Falla...
...junta promised free presidential elections on schedule in 1962, freed political prisoners, dissolved Congress and promised to elect a new one soon. To answer the inevitable question, the junta chose as its spokesman Lawyer Fortin Magana. It "definitely will not be of the Cuban type,'' he said. To a crowd outside the palace he called: "Because we believe that you deserve more than a crumb of bread and justice is precisely why we are here." How much more than a crumb it would take to keep El Salvador pacified remained to be seen...
Midnight Rider. In choosing these tactics, the army reformers frankly confessed they still fear Menderes' great popular following. "After all," said a worried junta spokesman, "more than 4,000,000 Turks voted for these people." In remoter Anatolian villages, the junta claims, the peasants still believe that Menderes at midnight mounts a white horse and rides over the country consoling his followers. One night he changed to a black steed, and the next day a notorious Menderes enemy was struck dead. Explained one Istanbul editor: "If we told our illiterate masses that Bayar and Menderes trampled on the constitution...
...Democratic Party. Koprulu's part had been apparently minor. The chief culprits, said the Turkish government, were already in custody-President Celal Bayar, Premier Adnan Menderes, and ex-Foreign Minister Fatin Zorlu. This is the story as told by a : spokesman for Turkey's new military junta...