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...within hours, the general had repaid the compliment, and Pakistan was back under military rule after an 11-year democratic interlude. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif found himself under house arrest Tuesday after military units surrounded his residence and took control of key facilities all over the country. The coup followed Nawaz?s decision earlier in the day to fire armed forces chief General Parvez Musharaf. "The conflict between the generals and Nawaz dates back to the prime minister?s decision in the summer, under pressure from Washington, to order his army to end its Kashmir incursion," says TIME New Delhi...
...ghost of CHARLES HORMAN continues to haunt the CIA. The American expatriate, killed during the 1973 coup led by Chilean General AUGUSTO PINOCHET UGARTE, was immortalized in the Oscar-winning 1982 movie Missing. His death and revelations of agency support for Pinochet helped lead to congressional oversight of CIA activities. In the wake of Pinochet's arrest last year in Britain, Clinton asked the agency and four other branches of government to review for release "all documents that shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence" from 1968 to 1991. The CIA has released only a fraction...
...when the Gorbachevs were virtually held prisoners in their home during a coup attempt, my heart broke for Raisa. I knew she must be scared--for her husband and her country. So George and I both shed a tear when we learned of Raisa's death. We mourned the loss of a friend; we mourned the passing of a fascinating woman who gave much to this world; mainly we mourned for Mikhail. Theirs was a great love story, and we know he'll miss her terribly...
...minimum wage. In The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 406 pages; $27), Nicholas Lemann describes the rise to power of the SAT and the keepers of its flame at the Educational Testing Service. Lemann is especially good at describing the "quiet coup d'etat" that the SAT accomplished in the 1950s and '60s, when it booted the Wasp elite by substituting classroom skills for the old-boy network as the key to college admission...
Chavunduka and his colleague, Ray Choto, were illegally arrested by the members of the Zimbabwean military in January after Choto wrote an article for The Zimbabwe Standard about an attempted coup within the Zimbabwe National Army to overthrow the government. Chavunduka is the editor of the paper...