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Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73, who was the first woman to lead an Islamic state, spoke in 1989. She is the daughter of deposed Prime Minister Zulfikar Bhutto, who was overthrown in a military coup by Gen. Zia ul-Haq and later executed...
Moral issues aside, there is considerable doubt whether a continued embargo will speed Saddam's downfall. The Administration hopes that popular resentment of the hardships Iraqis face will help provoke a coup d'etat. That calculation may well prove flawed. Would-be plotters, whether in the military or in the government, are insulated from these travails because of their privileged access to anything in short supply. Besides, the resentment could be directed at the authors of the embargo instead of toward Saddam...
Those who are swept into power by military coup sometimes find themselves swept out the same way. Take Major General Justin Lekhanya of Lesotho, a former policeman who seized control of the small African country in 1986. Last week rebellious army officers marched him to a radio station in the capital of Maseru, forced him to read a resignation speech and then replaced him with Colonel Elias Ramaema...
...international praise for faithfully steering Haiti to its first free and honest elections. But last week former Supreme Court judge and interim President Ertha Pascal-Trouillot was arrested and charged with complicity in a foiled coup against her own 10-month-old government in January...
...armed forces remained loyal to Ferdinand Marcos in the wake of massive election cheating in 1986, Corazon Aquino would not have become President. Had rebel factions of the army succeeded in the coup attempts that followed, Aquino would not still be in office today. In almost every case, the man who made the difference was General Fidel Ramos, Marcos' mutinous vice chief of staff and Aquino's faithful Secretary of Defense. Last week Ramos, 63, declared his intention to go after the top job himself -- constitutionally. In a move that surprised many of the other 10 contenders, Ramos announced...