Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kubitschek was stripped of his political rights after a military junta seized control in 1964, but his visionary aims are taking shape. Thousands of peasants have flocked to the "satellite cities" that spread out from Brasilia to a distance of 25 miles. Trucks rumble along the 1,350-mile Belem-Brasilia highway, spawning hundreds of roadside settlements, some of them with a distinct frontier flavor. At one hamlet, appropriately called Piza no Freio (Hit the Brake), the only permanent residents are a madam and her four girls...
...that characterized the first several days of the American operation suggests strongly that the U.S. command had more clandestine goals in Cambodia than Nixon was willing to acknowledge. It seems likely, in fact, that a primary goal of the invasion was to provide support for the right-wing military junta that seized power in Cambodia two months...
...neutralist regime at Prince Norodom Sihanouk-had lately come under sharp attack from opposition troops within Cambodia, and the insurgents had driven to within 50 miles of the capital city. Phnom Penh, by the time the Americans and South Vietnamese attacked across the border. Until, that time, the besieged junta had been pleading for support from neighboring nations, and was confining to do so, particularity in the United Nations, even after the Allied operation...
...friendliness of the U.S. government toward the junta was not particularly difficult to probe. Simply speaking, its leader-Lieut. Gen. Lon Nol-had long been uncompromisingly opposed to the "neutralism" of the Sihanouk regime, While in power. Sihanouk's government was characterized by its refusal to allow any American influence in the country, by its avowed antagonism to the U.S. presence in South Asia. To this end, Sihanouk had permitted North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces to use eastern Cambodia as a staging ground for operations against Allied troops in South Vietnam. In the Administration's view, the anti...
...Vietnamese forces in Cambodia were only a part of the domestic opposition which Lon Nol faced. It is interesting that Vietnamese may now actually be in the minority of the insurgent forces. When the junta decided to cut off the sale of foodstuffs to the Vietnamese, it became necessary for the military to engage in wholesale massacres of entire villages to enforce their decision. Further, the group which formed the clite corps of Lon Nol's army-the ??called "young Khmers"-were sponsored by the C.I.A when they operated against Sihanouk from bases in Vietnam and Thailand before they joined...