Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to avert all-out civil war, junior officers in the Salvadoran army had toppled the despotic military regime of General Carlos Humberto Romero last October and installed a five-man junta composed of two moderate colonels and three reform-minded civilians. The new government was immediately attacked by extremists on both the left and right. Further weakened by internal divisions, the junta was unable to stop the violence...
When all the civilian members of the junta and Cabinet resigned in protest last month, military leaders invited the leftist Christian Democrats to join them in forming a new government. But the shaky coalition seems no more likely than its short-lived predecessor to satisfy the far left...
...endless cycle of social and political upheaval has virtually destroyed the once flourishing economy of Central America's most densely populated state. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance has indicated that the U.S. was eager to provide $49 million in economic aid to help stabilize the junta. But money alone probably will not shore up the embattled government, and Washington policymakers concede that their options are limited. Says one Government analyst: "You get the very depressing feeling that all the U.S. can do is wait until it blows and then see what can be done...
...Harvard community has many objections to President Bok's invitation to Arnold Harberger to become director of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), which coordinates Harvard's involvement in development programs around the world. Harberger's involvement in policy making in the repressive military junta of Chile, compromising as it is to the future of HIID, is not the only objection to his appointment. Harberger's participation in Chilean economic decisions is indicative of a viewpoint which ignores considerations of social costs in purporting to analyze the benefits and costs of economic measures. In Harberger's own words, quoted...
...publishes a literary magazine out of Los Angeles-- Literatura Chilena en El Exicilio-- and organizes efforts against the Pinochet government there. Harberger says the government branded his brother-in-law's passport with an L, which means that he can never return to his homeland while the Pinochet junta is in power...