Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Must Be Patient." Though united on the surface, the new government is full of contradictions-a revolutionary junta of old-fashioned politicos and new young Nasserite soldiers whose direction no one can yet predict. The new Ministers of Finance and "Guidance" (propaganda), among others, once resigned from Parliament over the government's refusal to nationalize the oil industry. But the rebels seem content for the moment to keep old contracts and, in time, to negotiate (as Nuri wanted to do) for a higher share of the royalties...
...idea of a Popular Front because of the Communist Party's "concept of state order and its international obligations." Last week A.D. Boss Rómulo Betancourt said that his party "does not want Communist help," and Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, chief of the five-man military junta, declared that he was a Roman Catholic and that "Catholicism and Communism are antagonists." But the politicians' deeds are less impressive. Machado's presence at the president-picking session, for example, was a Popular Front at work...
...Finally, when in early July he was ordered into Jordan to bolster King Hussein, El-Kassim "read in the eyes and movements of the people" that the time to strike had come. He had no appetite for putting down Jordan troubles, for, as members of the junta like...
...military, though not ready to march, is plainly unhappy about the Communist-coddling tactics of one of the military's own: Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, chief of the country's ruling junta, who is apparently trying to line up enough popular support to become a "unity" candidate for President in the Nov. 30 election. In a series of quiet meetings, top officers drew up a paper complaining about the "shameful events" of the Nixon visit, demanding that Communists and far leftists be fired from government posts. The military had not decided where or when...
...first word crackled from the radios of Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad. The word: an army junta had overthrown the government and set up a three-man "sovereignty council" led by a little-known army general, Abdel Karim Kassem. From the Baghdad Radio, rechristened "Free Iraq Radio," and Nasser's announcers in Egypt and Syria, came sketchy details, whose authenticity had to be measured against the plotters' desire to stir further panic. Broadcasts said that the junta had seized the capital city before dawn, that wispy Crown Prince Abdul Illah, uncle of the young King, had been assassinated...