Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...counted among the dead, but here I am among the living." Thus, with tears rolling down his cheeks, Archbishop Makarios returned to Cyprus, five months after he had been ousted as the island's President by the Greek military junta's coup d'état. A crowd of 200,000, shouting "Makarios! Makarios!" welcomed him and offered its support for a settlement between Greeks and Turks. "Proceed, proceed," the crowd chanted. "The people are with you." Though he would never accept a partition of the island, Makarios said, "it is possible to safeguard the rights of both...
...main danger springs from the deep and bitter division between the overwhelming majority of Greek Cypriots who are loyal to Makarios and the small (2,000 members) but powerful EOKA-B organization. During last summer's coup, the EOKA-B sided with the then ruling Greek military junta to overthrow the archbishop. Unlike the leaders of the Athens junta, most of whom are now under arrest and awaiting trial on a Greek isle, the EOKA-B gunmen remain at large, mainly because Greek Cypriot authorities are eager to avoid another violent showdown after the debacle of the Turkish invasion...
...emergence of ebullient, indefatigable "Cap" Pérez (see box page 48) as a Hemisphere states man to be reckoned with. Now 52, Pérez began his political career at the age of 23 as personal secretary to Rómulo Betancourt - then President of the revolutionary junta that ruled from 1945 to 1948. When Betancourt's Democratic Action Party was outlawed in 1948 by the military dictatorship led by Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Pérez spent several years in prison and then in exile. Betancourt appointed Pérez Minister of the Interior...
Caramanlis came to Greece in July neither through a military coup nor through elections. Power was handed to him by the Greek junta after the tragedy of Cyprus. The junta did not fall from power; it merely moved backstage...
WALTER HEITMAN, Chile's ambassador to the United States, is speaking this afternoon to the Harvard Club's World Affairs Council. Heitman's main task as ambassador has been to defend the military junta that overthrew Salvador Allende's democratically chosen Popular Unity government last year. Heitman has thrown himself into his task with an enthusiasm so exaggerated it's almost comic, an enthusiasm he demonstrated in a letter to The New York Times last week. In the letter, the former admiral announced that a charge by a member of an international jurists' commission that the junta was sending Popular...