Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa; it also built a missile and naval base at the Somali port of Berbera, which is strategically located near the approaches to the Red Sea. But three years ago, following the overthrow of Haile Selassie, the Soviets began to concentrate on improving their relations with the new junta in Ethiopia-and thus began to alienate the Somalis. The Cubans, who used to back the Eritreans, followed the Russians to Addis Ababa, and today are helping to train Colonel Mengistu's "peasant army...
During the same period, the U.S. has lost out in Ethiopia-the junta expelled the remaining American diplomats and military advisers last April-but has been working hard to improve its relations with Somalia. Along with France, the U.S. has been offering "defensive" arms to Somalia in an effort to wrest the Somalis from the Soviet grip. The French, for their part, are worried about both Somali and Ethiopian designs on Djibouti, which gained independence from France only two months ago. An irony of the current fighting in the Ogaden is that the Somalis are equipped with Soviet-made...
Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis has steadfastly kept his distance from Cyprus since an attempted putsch against Makarios by the military junta that preceded him, but in Athens last week the government sympathetically declared six days of mourning. In Turkey, the new government of Premier Suleyman Demirel tactfully decided neither to gloat nor to salute his adversary. Most Turks, however, agreed with an Ankara grocer who declared that "God has finally heard our prayers...
...guerrilla legions. After independence, Grivas was banished to Athens as part of the settlement. He later returned secretly to oppose Makarios with a new EOKA-B. After the 1967 coup of the colonels in Greece itself, assassination attempts and other plots against the archbishop multiplied. In 1974 the Athens junta mounted a coup that sent Makarios into hasty exile once again. But five days later (TIME, July 29, 1974) the coup precipitated a Turkish invasion. The result was a humiliating defeat for the dominant Greek Cypriots. When Makarios returned, he found a battered country that had abandoned the idea...
...which all share in a country's wealth, where foreign capital does not exploit cheap labor, where children are no longer malnourished and no one is homeless. Both these films may be biased in favor of Allende, but it is hard not to be, given the nature of the junta and its supporters. And it is hard to leave the films without some faith that Allende was right, that the forces which created the Chilean junta cannot win in the long run. It would be hard indeed to continue living without such faith, however feeble...