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...ground troops fanned out through Turkey's capital city, surrounding government buildings and setting up roadblocks. In a bloodless coup, a National Security Council, composed of six generals, replaced the democratically elected government of Premier Süleyman Demirel. Evren, 62, a political moderate who heads the junta, said in a radio announcement that the army had moved to prevent "followers of fascist and Communist ideologies, as well as religious fanatics, from destroying the Turkish Republic...
...these good works required lots of money. Eirinaios seemed to raise it as if by magic and did not spend it on himself. But Eirinaios was one of the few bishops who refused to collaborate with the military junta that took power in Greece in 1967. That stand apparently led to the bishop's downfall. The Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, which has some church jurisdiction over Crete, asked the politically troublesome Eirinaios to step aside in 1971. He was sent to West Germany to minister to 350,000 Greeks who migrated north in search of jobs. Soon Eirinaios...
...early elections. But when it came his turn to speak, Ortega announced that elections would not be held until 1985. "The economic and moral destruction of the country is of such magnitude that it cannot be rebuilt before 1985," he said, by way of explanation, and so "the junta will have to go on governing" until that time...
...direction in Managua), and others such as head prosecutor of Somocist trials, the political secretary of the FSLN in Leon, and the National Secretary of Foreign Relations--of the 46 representatives on the National Council of State, less than 25 per cent are women. And the five-person ruling junta has not had a woman member since Violeta Barrios de Chamorro resigned last April...
...most decisive blows against the junta will probably come from the outside in the form of economic sanctions -painful for a country that has no foreign exchange reserves and is dependent on aid. Venezuela has frozen $285 million in credit. About $123 million, mostly in development aid, has been lost with the suspension of U.S. disbursements. Bolivia's balance of payments deficit for 1980 is now forecast to be $500 million; with tin exports interrupted, the junta may in effect go bankrupt before it has a chance to do more damage. In addition to eliminating all military assistance...