Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handful of tanks took up positions around the headquarters of the National Security Command in Bangkok, and Thais were told to listen for a special radio announcement. The news: Thailand's three-year-old constitution and the Parliament had been summarily abolished and replaced by a military-dominated junta headed by Premier Thanom Kittikachorn. Members of Parliament were allowed to collect $257.14 each in pay and allowances due them...
Finally, he did-thus becoming the first top-ranking Western leader to set foot in Greece since the 1967 coup. Officially, there was to be no endorsement of the junta, just a discussion of "NATO matters." Unofficially, Agnew would visit his ancestral home as a private citizen. But when his olive-drab helicopter settled down at Gargalianoi (pop. 6,200), one day last week, Agnew saw the streets lined with some 60,000 cheering peasants who had come on foot and by donkey and chartered bus from miles around. At Agnew's side, his head reaching only to Agnew...
...time to Greece, Turkey and Iran, few men would envy anyone the task of handling the Vice President's press corps-small, hand-picked lot though they are.* Will Agnew make another gaffe like adversely comparing American black leaders to African dictators? Will he praise the Greek ruling junta as a force for law-and-order? Will he do nothing in Iran but play golf-or worse, just sit in his tent, as he often used to sit in his hotel room in Seoul...
...days of the revolution are over for good," sighed one of the ex-colonels in the original military junta that took over the Greek government in a 1967 coup. "From now on it is just Pa-padopoulos." The ex-colonel was not exaggerating. Last week, in an abrupt and major reorganization of his government and Cabinet, Premier George Papadopoulos, 52, removed all power from the other junta members and left himself alone at the top. The last two of the original partners in the Papadopoulos takeover, former Brigadier Stylianos Pattakos and former Colonel Nikolaos Makarezos, were given deputy premierships with...
...highly visible target: the U.S.'s $13.8 billion worth of investments, principally in mining, oil and manufacturing. Venezuela has served notice on foreign oil companies that it has no intention of extending their concessions, which begin to expire in 1983 (see BUSINESS). Peru's left-leaning military junta has already taken over the International Petroleum Co., a Standard Oil of New Jersey affiliate. Socialist Chile has expropriated-with compensation yet to be determined-U.S. copper mines whose worth is estimated at between $500 and $800 million...