Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Admittedly, the Cyprus situation has been an extremely confusing affair--beginning with an act of illegal aggression on the part of the Greek military junta, progressing to the hopeful replacement of that oppressive government with a more open civilian one in Greece, and rapidly deteriorating into the re-opening of the thousand year rivalry between the Greeks and the Turks. Still, Kissinger's role and lack of action at certain decisive points during the crises are puzzling...
...Some people may tremble when they hear what I will say," warned Peruvian President Juan Velasco Alvarado before delivering his independence day speech last week. No one in his audience was inclined to take the remark lightly. After six years of rule by Velasco's left-leaning military junta, Peruvians have learned that whatever the mercurial general says generally goes...
Peculiar Style. What many Peruvians fear is that Velasco will bring them even more of his emerging peculiar style of freedom and ruin the generally progressive advances made under his rule. The government does not enjoy wide popularity, but there is little question, even among diehard critics, that the junta has made impressive strides...
...months with the pretense of being fair and objective proceedings. Foreign observers, including former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, were allowed into the courtroom, and all 65 defendants were permitted to have counsel. So anxious -at least outwardly-was Chile's eleven-month-old junta to demonstrate its system of justice that there was speculation that Supreme Head of State Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, an army general, would let the political prisoners off with relatively light sentences. Not so. Last week four of the men were condemned to death, two to life imprisonment and 56 to prison terms ranging from...
Whatever the outcome of Pinochet's review of the sentences, the results of the trials were hardly encouraging to the approximately 6,000 political prisoners still held by the junta. They include such high officials of the Allende government as Foreign Ministers Clodomiro Almeyda and Orlando Letelier, who await trial under the same judicial process...