Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bayar had tried to commit suicide "to save the family honor," explained a member of the 38-man ruling junta. "He wanted to go down in history other than as a condemned criminal...
Free elections get further away in Turkey, while political problems multiply. When he first overthrew ex-Premier Adnan Menderes (TIME, June 6), General Cemal Gursel. the straightforward fighting man who runs Turkey's 50-man military junta, estimated that it would be three months at most before elections to install a new civilian government could be held. Last week, exactly three months after his coup, Gursel postponed the elections until next May 27, his first anniversary in power. Even if voting should be delayed a bit beyond that date, he added, "you may take it as definite that...
Late last week, in apparent reaction to the mounting unrest, Gursel and his junta abruptly fired ten of Turkey's 17 civilian Cabinet ministers (one key man retained: able Foreign Minister Selim Sarper). Blandly, General Gursel explained that "these men carried burdens for three months, and now it is felt that others should take over." The old Cabinet was admittedly ill-trained and uninspiring, largely because Gursel bars from office any official who has ties to either the Democratic or Republican parties. But for the same reason, superior replacements are likely to be hard to find. General Gursel, like...
Unequivocal Disavowal. Last week General Gursel staged a public ceremony to reassure the doubters. Before an overflow audience of Turkish citizens, foreign diplomatic and press representatives in the flag-decked Parliamentary chamber, he summoned all 38 members of the junta to a public oath-taking. "As your leader, I will take the oath first," said Gursel. One by one, in alphabetical order, the officers swore "that I will not depart from the aim of organizing a democratic republic according to the constitution, and from turning over the government to an elected parliament...
What stands in Khrushchev's way in Cuba? A rash of opposition groups have sprung up, all taking anti-Communism as their theme. An anti-Castro junta will soon form in Miami (a city called "West Berlin" by its bitter Cuban exiles). One group beams shortwave broadcasts to Cuba nightly at 9 over Boston's WRUL; another, the Movement for Revolutionary Recovery, is headed by four former Castro officials, has cells all over Cuba, and publishes a clandestine newspaper, Rescate (Rescue). Nine small guerrilla bands are operating in Cuba's mountains-though a government patrol last week...