Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bhutto, the election was a battle among ghosts. She was driven by a fierce longing to 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...
...general's army is still alive and well. Its looming presence compelled Bhutto to moderate her father's nationalist-socialist program. She declared her devotion to free speech and free markets, and repeatedly assured the military they had nothing to fear from a P.P.P. regime. Praising the army's restraint as "critical to the restoration of democracy," she embraced the military's interests: close ties with the West, continued support for the mujahedin in Afghanistan and development of Pakistan's unacknowledged nuclear-weapons capability...
...tragedy enlarged through the afternoon. First had come the awareness of the death of a man, a friend, a father and a husband. Then numbed nerves began to grapple with the fact that the Government too was brain-dead for the moment. There was the sense of a beast in convulsion at Parkland. Police rushed here and there. Vehicles circled, darted. A small coterie with Vice President Lyndon Johnson . . . No, try it again. A small coterie with President Lyndon Johnson dashed for Love Field and Air Force One. A piece of lead weighing less than an ounce had blown away...
From the moment Sununu's appointment leaked last week, it drew fire from supporters of Israel who were troubled by his refusal in 1986 to join the 49 other Governors in signing a proclamation condemning a 1975 U.N. resolution that equated Zionism with racism. Sununu, whose father is Lebanese, mollified critics with the explanation that he later recognized his mistake and supported the strongly pro-Israel plank in the 1988 Republican platform. "One learns from what goes on," he acknowledged. The flak aimed at Sununu spurred Bush to accelerate by 24 hours his tapping of the chief of staff, after...
Nothing in her upbringing as the indulged eldest daughter of a wealthy landholding Sindhi family, or in her education at Harvard and Oxford, prepared her to shoulder her father's legacy so much as the trials she endured after his execution. Jailed or detained for more than five years, and exiled for two more, she returned triumphantly in 1986 as the leader of the Pakistan People's Party (p.p.p.). Deaf to criticism of her autocratic father, she seems determined to do what is necessary to restore his reputation. TIME correspondents Ross H. Munro and Edward W. Desmond spoke with...