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Dismissed, said the prime minister to the general. But within hours, the general had repaid the compliment, and Pakistan was back under military rule after an 11-year democratic interlude. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif found himself under house arrest Tuesday after military units surrounded his residence and took control of key facilities all over the country. The coup followed Nawaz?s decision earlier in the day to fire armed forces chief General Parvez Musharaf. "The conflict between the generals and Nawaz dates back to the prime minister?s decision in the summer, under pressure from Washington, to order his army...
...American expatriate, killed during the 1973 coup led by Chilean General AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE, was immortalized in the Oscar-winning 1982 movie Missing. His death and revelations of agency support for Pinochet helped lead to congressional oversight of CIA activities. In the wake of Pinochet's arrest last year in Britain, Clinton asked the agency and four other branches of government to review for release "all documents that shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence" from 1968 to 1991. The CIA has released only a fraction of the documents it should have and, despite a high priority...
...from the Israelis," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. "I apply via the Palestinian Authority, which forwards it to the Israelis. They do a security check, and I?m given a permit five days later." Israelis control the border checkpoints onto the road, and reserve the right to arrest Palestinian travelers deemed a security threat. Although Arafat?s negotiators had initially resisted Israel?s demands for tight security control, they eventually conceded...
...arrest was a major embarrassment to Disney and a shock to the Internet world. It also demonstrated the increasing efforts by the FBI to hunt down what the agency terms travelers, people who troll the Internet for impressionable children, trying to persuade them to meet for sex in the real world. "We've encountered a brand new kind of offender," says Randy Aden, supervisor of Southern California's safe squad. "You don't get the stereotypical bogeyman. You get doctors, lawyers, policemen, firemen--the guy next door." Aided by an infusion of $20 million from Congress in the past...
After their arrest, the two say they were tortured by members of the military who applied electric shocks to all parts of their bodies and beaten with batons and fists. Their heads were wrapped in plastic bags and then put in water until they began suffocating...