Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extremists' attack in the Ankara airport, their first assault on Turkish soil since beginning their crusade, deeply shook the government. Four members of Turkey's five-man junta attended the solemn state funeral for three policemen and the airport manager who had been slaughtered in the action...
...think we should negotiate with the Israeli, barbarian, savage, terrorist military junta in Israel, with their
Fifty-five years later, Mumford still displays the same hatred of the mechanistic and the totalitarian, whether promulgated by a ruling junta or a local zoning board. He swears by "the fusion of the emotional and the intellectual, the equal awareness of past and future . . . the unwillingness to put any part of life in a separate compartment detached from the whole...
Bignone's tenure will be complicated by a gaping schism within the three-man military junta. The air force and navy dropped out of political decision making two weeks ago to protest the army's refusal to appoint a civilian as President. In a deliberate snub, Navy Admiral Jorge Isaac Anaya arrived at Bignone's inauguration only at the last minute. Air Force Chief Basilio Lami Dozo boycotted the ceremony altogether. Nonetheless, the army's enormous edge in manpower (130,000 troops) over the navy (36,000) and the air force (19,500) is likely...
...Bignone was being optimistic. In the wake of his selection, the navy and air force declared that they would no longer take part in the junta's political decisions. That left the army in sole control for the first time since the military took power in 1976, but it also turned the army into a kind of rump political force. Asserting that it had "assumed the political conduct of the national government," the army promised unenthusiastically that it would return Argentina to civilian rule by "the first months...