Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago when Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, 59, seized the premiership of the Sudan at the head of a military junta, he did not indulge in the Middle East's usual inaugural blood bath. Leaders of the old regime were neither jailed nor harmed. Two former Prime Ministers even got liberal pensions...
...Orthopedic Hospital in Caracas, supported it for months out of his own pocket. Other philanthropic works: five schools, scholarships and agricultural research. Recently, he promoted $6.000,000 in private capital to finance a low-cost housing project for poor Venezuelans. Mendoza served as a civilian member of the revolutionary junta that ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, but resigned in dismay four days after Vice President Richard Nixon was mobbed (TIME, May 26, 1958). "He is," says one high government official, "the first case of a Venezuelan capitalist with the modern mentality...
Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, 58, proved surprisingly lenient last November when, in a bloodless coup, he seized the premiership of Sudan at the head of a military junta formed to combat "deteriorating democracy" (TIME, Dec. 1). No political enemies went to jail, and two former Prime Ministers were actually pensioned off at a liberal ?100 a month. But leniency has its limits, and last week, in the air-conditioned, blue-carpeted Sudanese Parliament chamber at Khartoum, two rebellious brigadiers faced a full-dress court-martial. The charge: mutiny...
Princeton, Barnaby says, is "always good and deep" and will be doubly troublesome on their home courts. The Tigers, for the first time in several years, lack a really outstanding star, and "you don't need a man like Dale Junta on your team to lick them at number one." But there is always a problem of adjustment to playing conditions for the visiting team, and, although the varsity did well at Navy and Penn, Princeton will be a good deal stiffer...
With a man of the calibre of last year's varsity captain Dale Junta paying in the number one position, Freshman tennis coach Corey Wynn is already looking forward to a pleasant season. Jarum Piatigorsky, a high ranking competitor from California junior tournaments, will frustrate opponents throughout the spring with one of the best serves to appear on a Freshman team in recent years...