Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the South American countries can thus agree on certain common grievances against the U.S., they have deeper hostilities, between classes and interests, within their own countries. The two can sometimes merge, as in the Chilean leftist underground, where the hated Pinochet junta is seen as a creature of the Pentagon...
...short, the gay and women's movements against sexism, and the socialist movement, are mutually supportive. If we pull together, as in the antiwar movement, we can win. If we don't--we lose. In Nazi Germany and junta Chile, the fascists were and are impartial--they killed socialists, feminists, and gay people by the thousands. With this in mind, it's realism, not paranoia, to say that if we don't all hang together, we'll all hang separately. Diana Sperling, HR Women's Center and HR NAM Womens' Caucus David Price, HR NAM Equal Admissions Committee
...embarrassing" position of having signed a pact giving a left-of-center Spanish government $750 million in military aid and $250 million in economic assistance. And, less likely (but all the more interesting), Kissinger just might wait for a better treaty with a "stable" military junta in Spain...
...that he (joes-it is extremely unlikely that he will want or dare to break with the right so soon. Since Communist demands for a provisional government are almost certain to go unfulfilled, the P.C.E. will probably launch a series of "democratic activities": strikes, walkouts, demonstrations. In fact, the Junta Democrática-a leftist group believed to be heavily influenced by the P.C.E.-did not even wait for the young Prince to take office before it began distributing leaflets at universities last week calling for the overthrow of "the Juan Carlos dictatorship...
...effort to break the mold cast by Franco comes too late, Juan Carlos will have at least one sympathizer. His brother-in-law Constantine has reportedly told Juan Carlos that if he had spoken out more forcefully against the military junta in Greece, he might still be reigning in Athens rather than living in the suburbs of London...