Word: benazir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...images still stir the spirit: multitudes, swathed in yellow, sweeping Corazon Aquino to power in the Philippines; Benazir Bhutto campaigning atop truck caravans in Pakistan; Violeta Chamorro, in a wheelchair, toppling Nicaragua's haughty Sandinista regime. In the past decade, no man has come to power as dramatically and as spectacularly as these women. For feminists everywhere, the rise of Aquino, Bhutto and Chamorro seemed to augur huge steps forward for societies usually characterized by unrelenting machismo. The images, however, were misleading...
Despite charges of corruption and mismanagement leveled against her, Benazir Bhutto and her Pakistan People's Party were confident of winning at the polls last week. They bought victory advertisements in the newspapers even before the results were known. The ads appeared next morning, but Bhutto's victory did not. The surprise runaway winner was the Islamic Democratic Alliance, a loose coalition of eight, mostly right-leaning parties, most of which sat in opposition to the former Prime Minister during her 20 months in power. The winners captured 105 of the 216 seats contested for the National Assembly, while Bhutto...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan--The political party of Benazir Bhutto '73 suffered a stunning defeat at the hands of right-wing foes in parliamentary elections yesterday, according to partial returns. The electoral rout was widely seen as a verdict on her dismissal as prime minister...
...caretaker government of Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was startled by the aid cutoff. Some Pakistani officials do not believe Washington is serious, because it needs Islamabad's help in the gulf. Others chalk it up to irritation on Capitol Hill at the dismissal of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on corruption charges. If elections are open and fair, they believe, the "political problems in Washington" will ease...
...ashen-faced Benazir Bhutto sat in the judge's chambers, hundreds of her supporters last week ransacked the courtroom in Lahore, where she was about to go on trial for corruption and abuse of power. Dozens of people, including police, were hurt during the two-hour riot; at one point, Bhutto was pulled into the crowd and collapsed...