Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mainland, the Argentine junta denounced Britain's aggressive action, but denied that the Port Stanley airfield had been taken out of operation at all. The Argentines also claimed that their antiaircraft gunners at Port Stanley had downed two Sea Harriers, killing...
...that the new leader, a general himself, has the backing of the historically repressive Guatemala military. And who cares that an economic program to help the nation's poor has yet to be announced ? Or that it hardly seems prudent to change policy drastically toward a newly born, unpredictable junta...
...Robert White as a "pathological killer," had just assumed a key position in a country racked by left-wing insurgency and right-wing terror that have left some 30,000 people dead since October 1979. D'Aubuisson's election was an apparent defeat not only for outgoing junta President José Napoleón Duarte's Christian Democrats, who had won a 40% plurality in the March 28 ballot, but for the Reagan Administration, which had made no secret of its preference for the moderate Christian Democrats. The constituent assembly will name a provisional government to replace...
...Guatemalan junta has announced plans to dismantle the death squads and bring to trial former government officials. But policy to shore up Guatemala's troubled economy has been made public. New elections, promised by Rios Montt, have yet to be set Clearly it is too early to predict in which direction Rios Montt will go. It should be at least as clear to Washington that to change policy so dramatically to ward a regime which is only a month old is folly...
Ironically, the new government did not request the revived military aid instead, it was offered by the U.S. in a gesture of friendship to Rios Montt According to Congressional sources the Guatemalan Junta is more interested in economic assistance such as construction equipment...