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...Declared an army officer: "We told the Shah, as Lincoln once said, a house divided cannot stand by itself." Said a general to the Shah: "It is against our military honor to stand the present situation." A lengthy late-night Cabinet meeting followed, and on the morning after, Premier Jaafar Sharif-Emami proclaimed a curfew and martial law for six months. Not in a quarter-century had Tehran been under the rule of troops...
...restore the country's economy. He cut inflation from 31% to 8%, cracked down on wealthy tax dodgers, purged the civil service of crooks and incompetents. But the reforms came far too late, and the rioting only grew worse. Early last week the Shah replaced Amuzegar with Jaafar Sharif-Emami, 67, a former Premier who is himself known as a devout Muslim. The Shah's charge to his new Premier: mollify the mullahs...
...opportunities. The Shah's forward-looking Premier, Jamshid Amouzegar, had better luck coping with the problems of industrialization than negotiating with Shi'ite mullahs. Unable to bridge the gap between mullahs and modernists, the otherwise able Amouzegar resigned early this week, and the Shah quickly replaced him with Jaafar Sharif-Emami, chairman of the Iranian Senate...
...coup d'état took place in Sudan. My attitude was firm. I said we condemned it because we would not accept a Communist régime established on our doorstep-in a country sharing our borders. A few days later, however, the coup was foiled and President [Jaafar] Numeiry, having got rid of his enemies, was back in power...
Attempted Coup. The first target -possibly three months hence-was to be Sudan, where President Jaafar Numeiry last year survived an attempted coup. Since then, Numeiry has followed Sadat's example by ordering all his Soviet military advisers back to Moscow. Cairo believes that Libya planned a twopronged assault on Numeiry: an Ethiopian-sponsored uprising in the Sudanese south, combined with Libyan air attacks from Al Kufra. Another target was to be Chad, where Libya has not only seized large chunks of disputed border territory but also supports a leftist insurgent movement that aims to oust President Felix Malloum...