0 a government, especially a military one, that has taken power in a country by force and not by election:
1 a small group, esp. of military officers, that rules a country after taking power by force
All this occurred at the same time that the junta's military ' constituency ' was preventing a negotiated settlement of the 1982 crisis.
It was reorganized in 1961 by the military junta.
Thus, the junta's position might be likened to the gambler, down to his last chips, willing to stake all on a final throw.
However, the junta could still have been greatly constrained from bluffing by the ' audience costs ' engendered by its military constituency.
Just why the junta seemingly ' pulled its punches ' forms an intriguing puzzle, one that may be fruitfully analysed at the organisational level.
The following theorem offers a higher degree of precision at the inevitable price of needing a larger junta to capture the intersecting family.
The junta, however, would not revoke their demands.
Moreover, on the day that ' ' it seized power in 1976, the military junta issued a decree removing all justices.
