Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dale W. Junta '58, of Adams House and San Leandro, Cal., was elected president, and Arthur E. Reider '58 of Eliot House and San Francisco, was elected secretary...
After nine years of encouraged hatred, the military junta that has replaced Rojas cannot suddenly reverse the anti-Protestant policy without stirring up stiff opposition that could cripple their aim to return Colombia to civilian control. But the junta has allowed the largest Protestant church in the country, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Barrancabermeja, to open its doors again to its 1,500 worshipers. And the government has promised a new visa policy to selected Protestant missionaries, who have had difficulty entering Colombia for more than a year...
...agreement drawn up jointly by Lleras Camargo and Gómez, which provides that during the next three four-year administrations, Cabinet posts, Congress seats, state legislatures and town councils will be arbitrarily divided 50-50 between the two parties, was the basis for the document presented to the junta last week...
...junta, although made up of former
Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's military advisers, seems to welcome the formula that will let it return the country to civilian control. Brigadier General Rafael Navas Pardo, the most militaristic of the junta's generals, has bluntly told all company commanders and military state governors that under no circumstances would the junta continue in office after August 1958, the date set for the inauguration of a civilian President...