Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fear is lifting in Turkey. Restaurants that had closed for lack of clientele have been reopening. Families that once locked themselves in at sunset are venturing out to evening bazaars. Students have stopped shooting and returned to studying. Just three months after General Kenan Evren and his military junta overthrew Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel's paralyzed government, the country's notorious terrorism is on the wane and the crippled economy is on the mend...
...order has not been imposed with kid gloves. Martial law has been extended over the whole country. General Haydar Saltik, secretary-general of the junta, recently announced that 6,900 persons have been arrested since the takeover, 746 have been convicted by military courts, and three have been hanged-the first application of the death penalty in eight years. In at least nine cases, it has been suspected that detainees were tortured to death. Anxious to avoid blame for excessive, police-state brutality, however, the central authorities in each case launched an investigation and sacked eight of the local police...
...General Evren refuses to set a timetable for any return to civilian rule, although he has convinced most Turks that the junta does intend to step down voluntarily at some point. He has promised to set up a special committee to draft a new constitution. Clearly, however, the junta intends to finish its self-appointed task-administering strong military medicine-before handing over power to the politicians, even those of its own choosing. Said Evren at a meeting of the Journalists' Association of Turkey last week: "Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce...
...junta that took over El Salvador's government more than a year ago, ending the repressive reign of Dictator Carlos Humberto Romero, has proved powerless against the wave of terror loosed by both the left and the right. In what amounts to an undeclared civil war, 8,400 people have been killed in terrorist attacks so far this year. Last week brought one of the most barbaric acts yet. In broad daylight, as the six men who led the country's left conferred in the Jesuit San Jose high school on a busy street in San Salvador, rightists...
When the six were first abducted, the junta held true to its tepid style: it issued a perfunctory communiqué urging the terrorists to respect human rights, and did little else. After the bodies were found, the FDR reacted more angrily. From a haven in Mexico City it accused the junta of backing the killings as part of a "genocide policy." The murders seemed certain to provoke even more bloodletting as leftists exacted retribution. Said a U.S. diplomat in San Salvador: "I can't think of anything that could make this situation worse." The extermination of the left...