Word: junta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also "drank a lot of sake and knew a great many young Tokyo actresses." In the political arguments that raged at school, young Kishi emerged as a conservative and a fiery nationalist. His hero was Kita Ikki, a right-wing radical who wanted Japan run by a military junta and called for the conquest of Manchuria and Siberia. Kishi was less happy about Ikki's attacks on private property and free enterprise; when some of Ikki's thugs tried to beat up a professor whose opinions they disliked, Kishi withdrew as a disciple...
...confident commanders of the Laotian army and the aggressive young Laotian politicians who call themselves the Committee for the Defense of the National Interest, Phoui's turn to neutralism was weak-kneed behavior. They agreed with Phoui's basic diagnosis, but not with his cure; they favored junta government, openly allied to the West. They had the full support of 52-year-old, Paris-educated King Savang Vatthana, a shy Buddhist who took over the throne only last fall upon the death of his polygamous, bon vivant father (TIME, Nov. 9). Resenting his constitutional position as a national...
Overnight, out went the military junta, in came a compromise civilian Cabinet headed by one of the King's aging advisers, 68-year-old Kou Abhay. It was, everyone in Vientiane delightedly agreed, a truly Laotian solution: though Phoui himself had been ousted, his neutralist policy, at least for the time being...
While troops stood guard through the capital city of Vientiane and three armored cars stood outside the royal palace, the military junta drove to a meeting in five sleek, black Mercedes and designated General Phoumi Nosavan, 39, Inspector of Armed Forces, as the military strongman of Laos. A government official, urging newsmen to remember that Laos was a Buddhist and basically peaceful country, said: "Please don't dramatize the situation. It's a coup d'etat Laotian style, and not on the South American level. It's all en famille. No bloodshed...