Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As expected, Evren announced that his government would honor Turkey's commitments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The pledge was welcomed by Western strategists because Turkey, with the largest standing army in Europe, is the vital defender of NATO'S southeastern flank and shares a 350-mile...
Evren last week repeated the military's pledge to return the country quickly to civilian rule, as it did following the interventions of 1960 and 1971. The first military regime lasted 17 months, the second 30 months, but everybody agrees that Turkey is in worse shape this time. After...
In Warsaw, meanwhile, newly installed Party Boss Stanislaw Kania moved to restore public confidence and cope with the country's awesome economic problems (see box). Scrapping the economic plan of deposed Party Boss Edward Gierek, the new regime announced that it would slash its 1980 budget by $400 million...
In the speech, Khomeini neglected the customary demand that the United States repent for past misdeeds against Iran--a demand which, in any case, the experts say only required a pledge of future non-intervention, not a full apology. Intrigued, the State Department called together the four experts to analyze...
It is not surprising that South Korea's military dictatorship has tried to clamp down on democratic forces in an effort to consolidate its grip. Nor is it surprising that the regime refuses to cleave to democratic principles, particularly when the U.S. does nothing more than whimper. It is time...