Word: benazir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rallied the supporters of her Western-educated father after he was overthrown in a 1977 military coup and hanged two years later. She became the official opposition leader in 1986 and a strong challenger to her father's nemesis, President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. Last week the articulate Benazir Bhutto, 34, a graduate of Harvard and Oxford, astonished friends and foes alike by announcing that she had agreed to an arranged marriage to a wealthy Pakistani businessman whom she had met only twice before...
...Asif Ali Zardari, 34, a handlebar-mustached building contractor and polo player. Like Bhutto, he is a member of a landowning family from Sind province. His father, once a supporter of Prime Minister Bhutto, remains active in opposition politics. The Zardari family reportedly broached the subject of marriage to Benazir's mother and aunt last year. Benazir and Asif subsequently met at a dinner party, but they did not get together again until two weeks ago, in London. Five days later the marriage plans were announced...
...Zardari, she decided that he was "nice and had a sense of humor and seemed to be a tolerant person ((who)) could handle having a wife who had an independent career of her own." The wedding will probably not take place until winter, by which time her followers -- and Benazir -- should have grown accustomed to the idea...
...happen to know that the frantic investigations ordered by the Pakistani high command have failed to turn up anything on the background of the enemy agent. Perhaps this was opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's way of proving that she's got all of Pakistan behind her. Or could it be that some Indian militarists hired a dissident on a freelance basis? We'll never really know who put the animal up to it; impervious to General Zia's customary interrogations by torture, the boar is keeping...
Edward P. Seaga '52, prime minister of Jamaica and Benazir Bhutto '73, a top opposition leader in Pakistan, are graduates of the College. And Mexico's President Miguel de la Madrid-Hurtado and Greece's Prime Minister Andreas G. Papandreou earned masters at Harvard...