Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's move was preceded by a flurry of political activity by Bhutto, the daughter of the former Pakistani leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged by the Zia government in 1979. She received several opposition leaders at her Karachi home and called for a return to democracy. Then she insisted on visiting the families of two party activists hanged earlier this year after being convicted of murdering a pro-Zia politician. Before Bhutto could meet with them, the President decided he had had enough and ordered the police to turn her home into a prison...
...board's hand was forced by a hostile takeover bid by two producers: Norman Lear, creator of the TV series All in the Family, and A. Jerrold Perenchio, promoter of the 1971 Ali-Frazier fight. As principals in cash-rich L.P. Media, Lear and Perenchio had offered $1,000 a share for ENA stock last month. That offer alone was enough to roil the Scripps family: ENA stock had been selling sporadically at only $150 a share two years ago. Late last year, in an attempt to placate family members disgruntled over the stock's performance, Clark bought back...
...Benazir Bhutto, daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former Pakistani Prime Minister who was executed in 1979, it was a grim homecoming. The 32- year-old graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities returned to Pakistan last week after 19 months of self-imposed exile in Britain. With her she brought the body of her brother Shahnawaz to be buried at the family cemetery near Larkana (pop. 123,000) in Sind province. Shahnawaz, 27, the youngest of Bhutto's four children, was found dead in his French Riviera apartment on July 18. He had once helped organize a terrorist group dedicated...
...trial of the eight defendants accused of conspiring to kill Pope John Paul II resumed last week in Rome, the overriding question was whether Star Witness Mehmet Ali Agca would ever testify again. The previous Tuesday, after persistent grilling by presiding Judge Severino Santiapichi, Agca had wearily announced, "There is nothing left to say." Then he returned to his cell in Rebibbia prison, refusing to appear in court. Over the weekend, however, the convicted Turkish gunman had a change of heart. Early last week he not only showed up in court but arrived with the announcement that "I have searched...
...most influential foreign-born businessmen in Houston are Iranians, many of whom fled their country in the late 1970s, around the time of the fall of the Shah. They have since flocked to real estate, and are currently constructing developments ranging from housing to shopping centers. Says Ali Ebrahimi, 43, whose company, Ersa Grae, has built five subdivisions in Houston and two more in Nashville: "What I have been able to do with very little money is to attract the confidence of big institutions to back me by putting together projects that work. In the U.S., if you have...