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Pinochet's defiance produced a bizarre pattern of dancing and rioting in the streets. Police fired tear gas and water cannons at some antigovernment protesters in two days of clashes that left dozens wounded and two people dead. More than 20 foreign journalists were among the injured. On Friday hundreds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile Fall of the Patriarch | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

Perhaps the most intractable of the country's troubles is the war in the south, pitting the local African population, largely Christian and animist, against the predominantly Arab Muslim government of the north. Former President Gaafar Nimeiri, who was overthrown in a popular uprising in 1985, aggravated the existing religious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan Drowning in a River of Woe | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

No sooner had cheering crowds welcomed Pope John Paul II to tiny Lesotho (pop. 1.6 million) last week than the cool night air erupted in explosions and flashes of light. But these were not fireworks welcoming the Pontiff. Blocks from the route the Pope's motorcade had taken through Maseru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Africa Hope, Blood And Defiance | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

Wright told reporters the CIA has employed agents covertly in Nicaragua to organize and promote antigovernment rallies and protests.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Blasts Wright for Indiscretion | 9/22/1988 | See Source »

More threatening for the government, there is evidence of growing disarray in the military. Late last week 200 uniformed members of the air force, most of them sergeants and privates, defected to the antigovernment opposition. But it remained unclear which way the country's 20 or so generals would tilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma At the Edge of Anarchy | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

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