Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five weeks after indecisive Turkish elections substituted shaky civilian rule for a military junta, the nation still had no functioning government. But after prodding by Junta Strongman Cemal Gursel, now President, squabbling politicians last week finally formed a Cabinet, result of a shotgun wedding between the two parties that most strenuously campaigned against each other and then received an almost equal share of the popular vote...
...ground troops earmarked for the revolt-torn African colony of Angola were diverted to home duty instead. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic-whipped northwestern frontier, police mounted a vast network of roadblocks known as "Operation Stop," ostensibly to crack down on auto thieves. Actual reason for the emergency: Strongman António de Oliveira Salazar's obsessive fear that maverick Henrique Galvâo, who stole the Santa Maria and world headlines in an eleven-day protest against the regime last January, plans a coup in Portugal itself...
Died. Dr. Milan Stoyadinovitch, 73, strongman Premier of Yugoslavia from 1935 to 1939, a brilliant economist turned politician who courted the Rome-Berlin Axis and strove vainly for dictatorship of his own nation until his exile in 1941; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires...
Republican Peoples, led by ex-President Ismet Inonu, favored by Strongman Cemal Gursel: Justice, New Turkey, Republican Peasant, all trying to win followers of executed Premier Adnan Menderes...
...blessing, the easygoing country was consigned to the rule of Interior Minister Abdel Hamid Serraj. Now 36, a ruthless graduate of the French-modeled gendarmerie, Serraj had a hammer lock hold on the country through control of its 15,000-man police force and an army of informers. Strongman Serraj beat and imprisoned thousands of Syrians. So efficient were his spies that garrulous Syrians learned to speak in whispers, developing an ailment known as "Syrian twitch"-a nervous compulsion to glance over their shoulders when talking...