Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blurted a new reason for vengeance. Speaking for the National Union Committee, Colonel Ertugrul Alatli announced that bodies of opponents of the Menderes regime had been found in circumstances that indicated they had been beaten to death in Menderes' jails and preserved for secret disposal later. Said a junta statement: "Some martyrs have been buried in unknown places, some thrown in wells, some kept in cold storage plants and even some cut up to be used as animal feed...
...week's end Alatli coolly reversed himself with the declaration: "We have nothing to substantiate reports that bodies have been found." Nonetheless, an investigation committee was named to prepare indictments of Menderes and other Democrats for these and other crimes. And the junta had already made up its mind as to the proper verdict. Said Colonel Alatli: "We say they are guilty. This is the feeling of our movement...
...Cabinet, almost entirely composed of able technicians, met nonstop in one room of Ankara's government building, the junta held round-the-clock sessions a few doors down the hall. Eating meals brought from a nearby restaurant and sleeping in his office ("I make the bed myself. That's why it looks so bad"), General Gursel hopped from one meeting to the other...
After what Panama considers a high-speed vote count-it took two weeks to tabulate 242,000 ballots as compared, for example, to three months after the 1948 election-an electoral junta last week handed the presidency to the candidate of the government's opposition...
...less than a month since a pro-Western military junta had taken over unstable little Laos, only to be dismissed in a hurry when the U.S. and the U.N. decided that despite Communist threats from neighboring North Viet Nam, the world would be safer if Laos stayed neutral (TIME, Jan. 18). What about the army now, someone asked the brothers Abhay. It was the younger brother who answered. "The army must serve," he said grandly. "That is its basic and only role...