Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Died. Panayotis Pipinelis, 71, Foreign Minister of Greece, one of the few professional politicians to serve the ruling military junta; of a heart attack; in Athens. A longtime supporter of King Constantine, Pipinelis nevertheless stayed on to assist the inexperienced colonels in their efforts to avert war with Turkey over Cyprus in 1967. Fellow royalists regarded him as a traitor, but he persisted in his attempts to moderate the oppressive regime...
...representative civilian government, but Ongania refused. Last week, in Argentina's sixth military coup in 40 years, the army surrounded Buenos Aires' Government House with troops. After holding out for twelve hours, the stubborn Ongania stepped into a Mercedes and drove 21 blocks to the junta's headquarters. "Gentlemen, I have come to present my resignation," he announced...
Waiting Out Peron. At week's end, the new junta whose members are Admiral Alberto J. Gnavi, Army Lieut. General Alejandro A. Lanusse...
...junta has also stressed the need for free elections. But this will hardly happen soon. The generals' dilemma, like that of the government they ousted, is that one of the two most powerful groups in the country remains the Peronistas, who still agitate for the return of El Eider from exile in Madrid. The military may be afraid to risk holding elections until after the death of the ailing 74-year-old Peron...
...disaster brought at least a temporary reconciliation between Washington and Lima. For almost two years, the U.S. and the Peruvian nationalist junta led by General Juan Velasco Alvarado have been feuding over Peru's seizure of U.S. properties. After an unfortunate initial delay, the U.S. won warm thanks from the Peruvian generals for its effective aid. From the U.S.'s Southern Command in Panama came a 40-man rescue team three days after the quake, and giant Chinook helicopters from the carrier Guam lifted supplies into remote Andean villages that otherwise were completely cut off from the outside...