Word: bhutto
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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...
Even then, the government could still have performed if Bhutto had chosen her Cabinet well. But she has shown little ability to pick talented -- not to say honest -- ministers. Important decisions often catch Bhutto by surprise, like Interior Minister Aitzaz Ahsan's move to harass and expel Christina Lamb, a British correspondent who wrote a controversial story about army officers plotting a coup that was embarrassing to the minister. Corruption scandals hit the papers almost daily, but Bhutto insists that the reports are mainly opposition propaganda, especially the attacks on her family. But one of her closest advisers is worried...
...Bhutto's apologists say she is learning, and point to her recent moves to cooperate with the President and back off from confrontation with the opposition. She can also feel secure in her stable relations with the army brass, which has so far stood aloof from the fray. Her ministers say they are working on legislation and feel their efforts to encourage the country's private sector will soon benefit the sagging economy. Then too, Bhutto has helped restore a strong, if incomplete, measure of freedom and democracy to a country that has been under military rule for most...