Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emigre "parties" are mere cliques that are largely ignored in Viet Nam itself. Typical is the new Central Left Party organized by General Nguyen Khanh, the strongman who was overthrown last year by current Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and other generals. So far, the party has only 60 members and has put forth no program...
...wanted to be repatriated. Toure knew well enough that few would take the offer: most of the Ghanaians in Conakry are members of Nkrumah's personal entourage who, in Accra, would face jail, a trial, and perhaps a firing squad. At week's end, Ghana's strongman, Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah flew off-via a Ghana Airways jet-to Addis Ababa to talk the whole thing over. After huddling with Emperor Haile Selassie, Liberia's President Tubman and Egypt's Nasser, Ankrah relented. To Accra went a message: turn the imprisoned Guineans loose...
...morning, and the streets were crowded, when a dozen an cient T-28s rattled over the city from the south. Working with remarkable precision, they avoided civilian targets, unloaded on army headquarters, the airport, and the command post of Royalist Army Strongman General Kouprasith Abhay. At the same time, a military radio station began broadcasting a declaration from coup-happy Laos' latest "Revolutionary Committee." The government had become too divided, proclaimed the communiqué, and the fault lay with the Royalists. Therefore, it went on, Kouprasith and a handful of other right-wing generals must be fired and replaced...
Burma's neutralist strongman Ne Win, whose nation shares 1,200 miles of border with Red China, feels secure enough to take a 21-month trip abroad - including a visit to the U.S. that he hardly would have considered making a few months ago. Having bitterly broken away from Malaysia a year ago and first set out on a violently anti-American, pro-Peking trajectory, Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, himself a Chinese, has lately warmed up to Malaysia and now openly praises America's role in Viet Nam. Faced by the xenophobic madness...
...Latin American governments can long survive without the support of the Catholic Church, and nowhere is this fact more important than in Argentina. There, the cardinal ranks third in official protocol and regularly moves in presidential circles. To prove his own strong Catholic bent, Strongman Juan Carlos Onganía constantly refers to religion in his speeches and has had large contingents of priests on hand on ceremonial occasions. Yet last week many churchmen were showing signs of washing their hands of his revolution and his government...