Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communists will oppose any government that does not include members of the Junta Democrática, an organization founded last year that supposedly represents centrist and leftist groups but is probably a Communist front. If the new regime fails to bring the Socialists into the government, the Communists may also try to woo them into an opposition national-front movement. "If Juan Carlos does not offer change and change quickly," warned a party official last week in Madrid, "he will be consigning himself to oblivion." From Paris, Carrillo was blunter, vowing "a wave of terror that will lead...
...PROSPECT OF RENEWED WAR. The agreement will encourage the military junta in Israel to instigate war on the northern front. The frequency of aggression−by sea, air and land−directed against the south of Lebanon and Palestinian refugee camps is evidence that the Israelis are encouraged to make more war. How could any wise man think this agreement in the Sinai, of a few kilometers here and there, has frozen the conflict between Israel and the Arabs? Such a small step took two years. How many years before a real solution to the basic conflict is found...
...Lima at midnight," he notes-Hillenbrand spent six days covering a long round of speeches and committee meetings at the conference site at the Crillon Hotel. The rather quiet routine was enlivened briefly by the speech of General Juan Velasco Alvarado, head of Peru's leftist military junta. Resplendent in his full-dress uniform, Velasco held up Peru's revolution as a model for developing nations. But at week's end, while filing his story to New York, Hillenbrand heard a brusque announcement over the pressroom television that Velasco had been deposed by a coalition of military...
...special student committee called the Freshman Council. You will be asked to elect representatives to the Freshman Council from among the 1200 or so of your peers in the Yard. But the Freshman Council's jurisdiction is limited because it deals only with freshman problems. Harvard's big-time junta is the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (hereafter referred to as the CHUL...
Signed by nine members of the 30-man Revolutionary Council and at least 400 other officers, the manifesto quickly received the support of the commandos, the cavalry school and the paratroopers, as well as the commanders of the central and southern military regions. The junta immediately retaliated by suspending the nine dissident members of the Council for signing it. But at week's end the document was reportedly being circulated freely throughout all three branches of the armed forces, and gathering more and more signatures...