Word: junta
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...truth is that all of this mess is due to the swing voters. In the 43 years since JFK beat Nixon on coolness points in the first televised presidential debates, the style-over-substance junta has come to rule this nation with an iron-fist. If their influence continues to grow unchecked, I project that we will see presidential debates replaced with Zoolander-style “walk offs” no later than 2016. Then again, this may not be such a bad thing, as it couldn’t hurt to have a leader with grace, poise...
...really cannot understand why I'm being denied access." RAZALI ISMAIL, UN special envoy to Burma, on the refusal of the country's hermetic, repressive military junta to grant him a visa for the past six months...
...They don't want change, but change is inevitable." AUNG SAN SUU KYI, Burmese Nobel laureate, criticizing the slow pace of reform talks with the country's ruling military junta...
With an extensive background in criminal and human rights law, the Argentinian professor’s career has been peppered with successful crusades against corruption and war crimes—most notably the prosecution of several members of Argentina’s military junta in the 1980s...
...campaign, urbane French-born economist Alexandros Yiotopoulos, whose penchant for tweed jackets belies the image of a terrorist leader, rebuffed the allegations, calling them part of a "cheap Anglo-American plot." The suspected terrorists are being tried in the same bunker-like chamber where Greece's dreaded junta was tried nearly 30 years ago; the junta's brutal crushing of a student revolt on Nov. 17, 1973 gave the group its name. The non-jury trial is expected to last up to five months; 11 of the accused face life sentences. - By Anthee Carassava/Athens...