Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's first election since 1966, which had established Pereda as the apparent winner. Bolivia's military leaders, headed by General Hugo Bánzer Suárez, 52, declared a national state of siege. Then Bánzer abruptly resigned, turning over power to a junta with Pereda as its head...
...close one, but the real wonder is that Roldós has been allowed to campaign at all. He is the protégé of Assad Bucaram, a podium-pounding founder of the CFP, whose threatened accession to the presidency prompted the 1972 military coup. Yet Junta Leader Alfredo Poveda has repeatedly promised to respect the election results. If he does, it will mark a step forward for Ecuador, which has averaged a new government every two years since 1830, when it gained independence from Spain...
...survived-most of them-a decade in which the disastrous Juan Peron returned from 18 years in exile to spread economic and political chaos. It has been a time in which the left-wing Montoneros murdered, kidnaped, tortured and spread terror at will, and in which the present military junta of President Jorge Rafael Videla has savaged the Montoneros and the more reasonable left as well by murdering, kidnaping, torturing and spreading terror...
...heart of the Greco-Turkish diplomatic impasse is Cyprus. After a 1974 coup inspired by Athens' ruling junta against the late President Archbishop Makarios, Turkey?using U.S.-supplied arms?invaded the island to protect the minority of 120,000 Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish forces, however, then proceeded to partition Cyprus. They occupied 40% of the island, centered on the industrialized north, where virtually all Turkish Cypriots now live. Nearly 200,000 Greek Cypriots were forced to flee, joining their 320,000 ethnic brethren in the south. Blaming the U.S. for supporting the hated junta, which collapsed after the Cyprus coup...
...Neto's Popular Movement government and to carry on the fighting against the pesky UNITA guerrillas of Jonas Savimbi in the southern part of the country. Last year the Cubans moved into Ethiopia in a big way. Reinforced by huge supplies of Soviet equipment, they helped the unstable Marxist junta in Addis Ababa drive Somali insurgents out of Ethiopia's Ogaden desert region. Now the Ethiopians, with the reluctant help of their 17,000 Cuban guests, are attacking secessionists in the northern province of Eritrea, where a brushfire war has been smoldering for some 15 years. All told, Cuba...