Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preoccupation with the political picture in Southwest Asia is likely to draw attention away from the situation inside Pakistan. Though Zia promised elections when he overthrew the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1977, he has refused to set a specific date for fear of civil unrest and has shunted potential military rivals to the sidelines. But countless Pakistanis still hold him responsible for Bhutto's execution by hanging in 1979 after a show trial. Bhutto's Radcliffe-educated daughter Benazir, 29, remains under house arrest because her public appearance anywhere in Pakistan could instantly send thousands...
...maintained his power in Pakistan through a program of violence and intimidation which he initiated five years ago with his military takeover of his benefactor Prime Minister Zulitgar Ali Bhutto. Many of his political opponents and critics reportedly have been jailed and tortured without trial or charges, while others have simply disappeared. Last year Zia fired 19 Supreme Court and provisional high court judges after they refused to endorse Zia's "constitutional order." This so-called order outlaws all rival political parties and enables the President to amend the Pakistani constitution at will. Yet in light of this record...
Azerbaijan Party Chief Geidar Ali Rza ogly Aliyev, 59, has been largely ignored by many Western observers, who assumed that a non-Russian would have difficulty rising to the top. His double promotion last week changed that by putting him in line to become the Soviet Union's first Premier from a Muslim republic. Aliyev joined the Soviet security force at 18, and headed the Baku branch of the KGB from 1967 to 1969. As Azerbaijan party leader, he has at tracted attention by cracking down on corruption and making his tiny Caucasian mountain fief into an agricultural success...
Almost from the moment Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded 18 months ago by a Turkish escaped prisoner named Mehmet Ali Agca, there have been vague reports that one or another Soviet-bloc intelligence agency might have been involved in the crime. With an arrest sure to fuel such rumors, Italian police last week seized a Bulgarian citizen named Sergei Ivanov Antonov, 34, head of the Rome office for Balkan Airlines. The charge: that Antonov was an active accomplice of Agca...
...boxers killed this year was wearing one. Naturally, some people also talk of abolishing boxing. But when boxing was illegal, men fought in back rooms and on barges. Men fight. Some put courage with skill and make art, not that boxing is justified even as art (though Muhammad Ali in his prime surely made it seem so). Boxing will exist as long as what it reflects in men exists. Maybe the only thing to do is try to control it better-and try not to like it so much. -By Tom Callahan