Word: benazir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Desmond, 30, on his first posting abroad, is not always under fire. He was showered with rose petals while covering the national elections in Pakistan that brought Benazir Bhutto to power. An Amherst College graduate who joined TIME as a reporter-researcher five years ago, he often can't avoid the dark side of his beat. In chronicling another election in Sri Lanka, Desmond spent days trying to make contact with violent Sinhalese rebels, whose campaign of murder frightened many voters away from the polls. Now back in New Delhi, Desmond will continue to keep TIME...
...Peter W. Galbraith '73, explaining the sobriquet of his classmate and Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir "Pinkie" Bhutto '73 (12/6/88...
Elation exploded in the cities of Pakistan last week. As Acting President Ghulam Ishaq Khan announced that Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan People's Party, would become the first female Prime Minister of a Muslim country, chanting crowds surged through the streets, and fireworks lighted the sky. Excitement rose to fever pitch as Bhutto, 35, was sworn in at the presidential compound in Islamabad...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan--Benazir Bhutto '73 became the first woman to lead a Moslem nation when the president chose her yesterday to be prime minister, the post her father held when he was deposed and hanged a decade...
Thousands of supporters celebrated in streets of the nation's cities after the long-awaited announcement. They danced, beat drums and chanted "Long live Benazir...