Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority and Turkish minority who inhabit it. Too of ten in recent times, the Turks have been second-class citizens. But under the rule of Archbishop Makarios, a reasonable if at times precarious modus vivendi had been achieved, and an independent Cyprus was prospering. Then a year ago, the junta of Greek colonels who governed Athens and whom the U.S. supported fomented a coup on Cyprus. It was led by 650 Greek military officers commanding the 10,000-man Cypriot national guard. The Turks, suspecting that the intent was to make Cyprus part of Greece and further suppress the island...
...invasion and occupation spontaneously unified the roughly 3 million people of Greek descent in America. Until then, they had been bitterly divided over the dictatorial government in Athens, which ended when the junta resigned in the wake of widespread civilian unrest in Greece after the Cyprus defeat. Greek Americans were outraged by the Turkish aggression, regardless of its justification, and besieged the U.S. Congress with demands that American military aid to Turkey be withheld...
Most Chileans recognize that the junta did not cause the country's economic problems; indeed, when the military overthrew Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens in 1973, inflation was running at a rate of 800% annually. But even right-wingers who ardently supported the 1973 coup have now begun to speak out about the "social cost" of the government's approach to the economy. Under Finance Minister Jorge Cauas, the government is resorting to economic "shock treatment"-15% to 25% reductions in government spending and attempts to hold the money supply down. Basically, the government's economic planners...
...most influential figure to criticize the junta so far is former Christian Democratic President Eduardo Frei. In a recent interview published by the Santiago newsweekly Ercilla, Frei complained that the junta's rejection of any sort of economic controls would only lead to monopoly. "This is what is actually happening: a greater concentration of power and wealth...
...nobody thinks that the junta's hold on the country is threatened by the discontent. The junta leaders-who self-righteously claim that criticism is the work of Communists-may not be aware of the rising doubts about their performance. Yet a sense of unease on the part of many Chileans is unmistakable. If the police terror and economic deterioration are not reversed, many more will blame Pinochet and the junta-not the damage wrought by Allende-for the country's hardships...