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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...
...Benazir Bhutto, last week's national elections in Pakistan must have seemed the storybook fulfillment of her father's fantasies. In the first truly free elections since the late President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq began his eleven years of autocratic rule, voters catapulted her Pakistan People's Party to dominance in the nation's politics and put Bhutto within reach of the prime- ministership once held by her beloved father. Dreams do come true. Scores do get settled...
...avenge her father's death. Amid charges of corruption, election-rigging and autocracy, the elder Bhutto was toppled from power in 1977 by Zia, who two years later authorized Bhutto's execution. "I told him on my oath in his death cell, I would carry on his work," Benazir Bhutto once said. In achieving victory by playing up her father's name and his strong populist appeal, she in effect vindicated his chaotic 5 1/2-year rule. Moreover, by besting the eight-party Alliance, which included many supporters of Zia's policies, she wreaked posthumous vengeance...
...Estonia, advocates of increased local autonomy risk a collision with Moscow over the limits of mutual sovereignty. In Armenia, anger continues to rise over the status of the ethnic minority in Azerbaijan. -- Benazir Bhutto wins the vote, but will she get to govern Pakistan? -- P. L. O. Chairman Yasser Arafat declares a Palestinian state in the West Bank...
...supporters, she is an avenging angel who promises to restore democracy. To opponents, she is impetuous, arrogant and inexperienced, a menace intent on undermining Islam and order. Angel or devil, Benazir Bhutto, 35, now holds the keys to the kingdom...