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...could be the prelude of a return of certainly de facto, if not de jure, military rule," said Galbraith, who is a staff member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...Peter W. Galbraith '73, a close friend of Bhutto, said she told him in a telephone conversation yesterday morning that the army had surrounded her home after President Ghulam Ishaq Khan legally dissolved her democratically elected government...
Ishaq Khan's action took Bhutto by surprise, Galbraith said. In a news conference, the prime minister herself called the president's charges a "slander campaign" and vowed to fight the decision...
...John Kenneth Galbraith...
American economists are writers of humorous fiction, as the U.S.-budget fantasies attest, but John Kenneth Galbraith's droll, mannered novels are funny on purpose. In his first, The McLandress Dimension (1963), the Harvard professor introduced a concept that measured the time -- often a matter of milliseconds -- that public figures spend thinking of matters unrelated to themselves. The new novel, his third, explores the equally valuable IRAT, or Index of Irrational Expectations, a quantification of the collective wrongheadedness of the stock market. Harvard technocrat Montgomery Marvin, known for his seminal study of refrigerator pricing, invents IRAT and becomes exceedingly rich...