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...tanks and infantry loyal to a "military revolutionary council" had surrounded the presidential palace in Afghanistan's capital. President Mohammed Daoud, 68, and his younger brother and political confidant, Mohammed Nairn, had been killed after they "madly" resisted the coup. A new regime was in control, led by Col. Abdul Kadir, 37, the air force chief of staff...
...coup in 1973. His target then was his cousin and brother-in-law, King Mohammed Zahir Shah, whom he had once served as prime minister. While the king was abroad for medical treatment, Daoud and a group of military insurgents−including the then and still obscure Col. Kadir−overthrew the Zahir monarchy, which Daoud condemned as corrupt and ineffective. But the Zahir family kept a tight hold on the top jobs and other spoils of power, and this time Col. Kadir vowed to throw them out once...
...memoirs--which are now in their final stage of editing--until after midnight. Three or four days a week, Nixon breaks away from his literary efforts for a couple of hours to play a quick nine holes of golf with his government-paid chief of staff, Lt. Col. Jack Brennan...
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...international pressures forced Leopold to relinquish his personal king dom. But he had already sown the seeds of the horrors that Forbath later witnessed following Congolese independence in 1960. Instead of preparing its onetime col ony for self-rule, Belgium simply cut the Congo loose on six months' notice. The Belgian departure left a vacuum that ri val factions rushed to fill, touching off further bloodbaths...