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...business will be to secure the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. She alone has the moral stature to press for the end to authoritarian rule and to halt the political factionalism that brought the military to power 28 years ago. Like the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto and Nicaragua's Violeta Chamorro, Aung San Suu Kyi's moral authority stems from family history and political tragedy: her father, Aung San, was a national hero who was assassinated in 1947, on the eve of Burma's independence from Britain. But unlike some of the others, who stepped into...
...India is indulging in genocide," charged Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto last week. She had just returned from a week-long tour of eight Middle Eastern countries, where she was seeking support for the Kashmiris' right to self-determination. While some Kashmiri militants favor an independent state of their own, Bhutto rejected that idea as "extremely dangerous." Kashmir's freedom, she insisted, was "the freedom to join Pakistan." In the process, she said, armed conflict with India could not be ruled out, "but we do not believe war is inevitable...
Kohl also becomes the fourth straight world leader--and the second German in four years--to deliver the Commencement address, following Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and West German President Richard von Weizsacker...
Recent Commencement speakers include Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir "Pinkie" Bhutto '73. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez and Spanish King Juan Carlos...
India also claims, with more substantiation, that Pakistan has interfered by encouraging the Kashmiri insurgents. The two-month-old government of Prime Minister V.P. Singh was infuriated last week when Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto abandoned her reticence on the issue and, in response to public pressure, voiced support for the militant Kashmiris. U.N. observers have reported a sharp increase in shooting incidents in recent months along the heavily fortified cease-fire line that separates the Indian and Pakistani parts of Kashmir. Pakistani soldiers attribute the sniping to jittery Indians; the Indians in turn blame the Pakistanis...