Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...merely a disagreement on principles that pushed the adversaries into a head-on military clash last week; a combination of errors, miscalculations and inflexibility on both sides seemed to block the road to peaceful, settlement from the beginning. On the Argentine side, the military junta's own secretive, authoritarian-leadership style blinded it to international realities and locked it into a position from which retreat was almost impossible. The junta disregarded the blunt warning from Secretary of State Haig that "U.S. friendship would be at risk" if the Argentines attacked. According to Washington analysts, the original decision to invade...
...same time, the junta underestimated British and world reaction. "They lived .in their own dreamworld," said one U.S. official. "What seemed to be irrefutable realities of the world did not even strike them as probable." According to this official, the Argentine leaders never expected the British to send a task force so far or to fight for such principles as self-determination and nonuse of force. Once the reality of British determination dawned on them, Galtieri and the other-ranking officers apparently decided that a fight to the finish-even a surrender-would be more honorable and politically safer...
Former President José Napoleón Duarte, who was a member of the junta that implemented the program with strong U.S. support in 1980, is also concerned that D'Aubuisson's backers may try to subvert it. If this should happen, Duarte told TIME last week, he will withdraw his Christian Democratic deputies from the new assembly, thereby denying it "legitimacy." Said he: "This country needs a change of structure. We have to use what few natural resources we have, along with our best natural resource-our people. We call this justice. The extreme right calls this...
...once in power, the Rios Montt junta was quick to praise Washington and the CACIF. Members of the CACIF were appointed as minister of the economy and minister of agriculture. And Rios Montt told the press that Washington had expressed its "enthusiasm and sympathy" for Guatemala's new government. A few days later, the Administration announced its official recognition of Rios Montt...
...Warsaw's Old Town, thousands of Poles tried to turn that threat into a reality. Citizens who had chafed, sullenly and silently, under military rule for five months took to the streets in a nationwide affirmation of their disapproval of Jaruzelski's regime. Chanting "Down with the junta!" they waved white-and-red Polish flags and brandished the symbol of the banned Solidarity labor union...