Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Greece's 31-year-old King Constantine has lived in exile since 1967, but his throne has been protected by a constitution proclaimed in 1968 by his country's ruling junta. Any public suggestion that the monarchy be abolished is a crime, punishable by at least five years' imprisonment...
...times (he finished one term of office in the mid-1950s). Recently he called for free elections next June that would bring an end to his two-year dictatorship. But one night last week, the Ecuadorian army quietly deposed Velasco and sent him into exile, replacing him with a junta headed by General Guillermo Rodríguez Lara...
...shrewd, buxom pillars of Ghanaian commerce, the market mammies, turned out by the thousands last week to celebrate the sudden, bloodless coup that had deposed the civilian government of Prime Minister Kofi Busia. Their faces powdered white with talcum and wood ash, the women carried placards supporting the military junta headed by Colonel Ignatius Acheampong and urging the execution of his enemies. One angry sign read CRUCIFY AFRICA, referring to General Akwasi Afrifa, a hero of the 1966 coup against Kwame Nkrumah who is now in prison, accused by the new government of trying to assassinate Acheampong and restore Busia...
...junta announced that the Ghanaian Parliament had been dissolved, and that the constitution had been "withdrawn." Before flying to the neighboring Ivory Coast, Busia declared in London that the Ghanaian people would resist "this selfish and senseless coup and overthrow it." His statement was mostly wishful thinking. Accra was so quiet that the junta did not even bother to impose a curfew...
...tranquillity, the coup imposed harsh military rule, complete with martial law, a provision for summary execution, and a prohibition of political gatherings of more than four persons. The new regime is virtually identical with the clique that controlled the former government. Besides amiable, soft-spoken Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, the junta includes tough, earthy Praphas Charusathien, who, as commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, is the most powerful man in the country. Among the members of the Cabinet who are at least temporarily out of a job: Thanat Khoman, a brilliant but unpopular Foreign Minister who helped forge...