Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When starchy Strongman Mohammed Ayub Khan, 54, stepped from his green and white Boeing 707 at Washington's Andrews Air Force Base last week, U.S. officials were well aware that they had come to meet a talkative tiger. Days before in London, the plain-spoken President of Pakistan had demonstrated his old soldier's scorn for diplomatic niceties, had loudly broadcast his doubts about U.S. policy in Southeast Asia and threatened to "reexamine" his country's SEATO and CENTO commitments. At planeside, his grey guardsman's mustache bristling, Ayub was terse and blunt. "We naturally take...
...Yung, front man for the new regime. In came Major General Pak Chung Hi, Chang's former "deputy" and the real strongman behind the May coup...
...eight years since he took over as Prime Minister and shrewd strongman of Afghanistan, Daoud had played the neutralist role cannily enough to keep the money rolling in from both quarters. The Russians built a military and jet airport near Kabul, the capital. The U.S. is just finishing a huge, 10,500-ft. jetport near Kandahar, has started work on other civil airports at Herat, Kunduz and Jalalabad. Russian and U.S. highway gangs compete, in trying to outbuild one another...
Died. Ex-Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, 61, auto-fancying, welfare-working daughter of Rumania's Queen Marie, great-granddaughter of both Britain's Queen Victoria and Russia's Czar Alexander II, and Yugoslavian monarch from her 1922 marriage to strongman King Alexander I until his 1934 assassination; following a long illness; in London, where she had lived for 20 years, the last 15 in Tito-imposed exile...
...death was the aftermath. Instead of serving as a signal for revolution to sweep down the hills into the capital, the assassination was followed by stupefied silence among his 2,900,000 subjects. General Diaz, the assassin, may have hoped in some vague way that without the strongman, the Trujillo regime would crumble. But Diaz' main motive was apparently revenge, not revolution. A favorite of Trujillo's brother Héctor, he had fallen into disgrace when some of his relatives were implicated last year in a plot against Trujillo. Diaz joined a group of three civilians...