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...Lekhanya had pledged to bring civilian rule to the landlocked mountainous country of 1.5 million by 1992, the six-man Military Council had made few preparations. Lekhanya also came under increasing criticism for having shot a college student in 1988, despite having been cleared of the killing in an inquest. A strike last week among some military units for higher wages finally helped whisk him out of power...
SOME day, when the catch-phrase-turned-cliche "political correctness" has "passed away," there will be an inquest. The authorities will have possible causes, some suspects, even a paper trail to follow...
...When the inquest finally comes, and all the questions are asked, and all the answers are given, don't be surprised if the PC body turns up lost...
...government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was meanwhile coping with a potential embarrassment of its own, in the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Last week a coroner's inquest opened into the March 6 killing of another three-member I.R.A. team by a squad from the British army's antiterrorist Special Air Services regiment. The inquest is expected to last a month and hear testimony from more than 70 witnesses, including seven SAS members who were involved in the killings. The seven, identified only as Soldiers A through G, will testify from behind a curtain in the witness box, within...
...starting block ahead of the pack. But the pack is coming on hard. As in Watergate 14 years ago, the Times will surely bring in the reserves for the journalistic war that is now declared and may in the end prove as important as the political inquest about to start over the Iranian-contra episode...