Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sanctions announced by Haig are more important diplomatically than they are in economic terms. While Haig has been fostering improved relations with Argentina, American assistance to that country has not recovered from the chilly period when the Carter Administration was outspokenly critical of an earlier Argentine junta's human rights record...
...Buenos Aires, the three-member junta headed by President Leopoldo
...victory sign and waving placards demanding FREE THE INTERNEES, the demonstrators headed off in the general direction of the authorized parade. They called to bystanders to join the march, and soon more than 20,000 were chanting "Solidarity," "Leszek" (for the interned Lech Walesa) and "Down with the junta...
...surprising outbreak of protest, by far the largest demonstration against the regime since martial law was declared last Dec. 13, was hardly a morale booster for Poland's junta leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. He and his comrades had hoped to blunt just that sort of anger. Earlier in the week, Poland's Interior Ministry announced that sufficient progress had been made in "the normalization of public life" to justify lifting some of the more onerous martial-law restrictions. The nightly curfew from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. would be suspended (a concession that the protest may well have...
...Presidential Palace. The selection of a provisional head of state capped a month of cutthroat political maneuvering that began with the March 28 election for a constituent assembly. That ballot had given 40% of the popular vote to the Christian Democratic Party, led by outgoing junta President José Napoléon Duarte and supported by the U.S. because of its progressive land and banking reforms. But a right-wing coalition headed by ARENA and the P.C.N. won control of 34 of the assembly's 60 seats and boldly moved to seize power. It gave the assembly presidency...