Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election is to be held early next year, and the Congress chosen then will select a President. Presently favored by all but right-wing Conservatives is Guillermo León Valencia, a middle-of-the-road Conservative. He will take office Aug. 7, and the ruling five-man military junta has promised for its part to step out on that date...
...DALE W. JUNTA, Adams; House Committee; Glee Club; Varsity Tennis, captain; Undergraduate Athletic Council, President; Varsity Club; Hasty Pudding...
Preston Brown, Eliot; Thomas C. Cochran, Jr., Winthrop; Dale W. Junta, Adams; Robert P. McVey, Leverett; Steven R. Rivkin, Lowell; Henry M. Schwarz, Lowell; Walter J. Stahura, Winthrop; Robert D. Storey, Leverett; and Griffith J. Winthrop, Winthrop: are running for class Marshal and not for class representative
Leftist Breakaway. Ydigoristas, who had started by protesting a rigged election, now wanted nothing less than total victory. They rattled the palace gates and screamed at the junta, "Resign!" But with the M.D.N. clearly defeated, the general's broad following was beginning to loose its ties. His leftist followers, breaking away, went to the palace and told the junta that they indeed wanted new elections, which they might well win. Ydigoras also made the pilgrimage to the junta, and with the U.S. air and military attachés sitting in at his request as "foreign observers," he stated...
...junta turned him down, and named Second Vice President Guillermo Flores Avendaño to take over. Calling the last election "vitiated, because there was no full guarantee to the citizenry of the legitimate exercise of its rights," the junta promised a new "electoral event to normalize the political activities of the country...