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About 10,000 cheering supporters greeted Benazir when she arrived from Karachi at Larkana's Moenjodaro airstrip near the Bhutto family compound. She was received warmly along an 18-mile motorcade route into the city by peasants waving black flags of mourning as well as the red, black and green banner of the outlawed Pakistan People's Party, which her father founded and which remains the most popular party in Pakistan. Final prayers for her brother, held in a Larkana sports stadium, were attended by an estimated 25,000 people, many of whom cheered, "Long live Benazir!" Several thousand more...
...since. In a move described as a precautionary step in preparation for the latest elections, Zia last week ordered the arrest of hundreds of opposition politicians and others who might prove to be a disruptive influence to his vision of "Islamic democracy." Said a senior Western diplomat in Karachi: "This is an invisible election. The constraints have choked the life...
...father's Pakistan People's Party. She has been in self-imposed exile in London for the past year. Pakistani police have gone to extraordinary effort to see to it that Bhutto did not try to return during the campaign and disrupt the painstakingly planned proceedings. At Karachi International Airport, security officials carefully checked the identities of veiled women returning from overseas. In London, Bhutto declared that she had originally planned to go home for the elections but had changed her mind after learning that she would be arrested on arrival...
...eyes of many in the crowd of 150 Government officials and family members. Vice President George Bush delivered a brief and angry eulogy for the two officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development killed two weeks ago in the brutal hijacking of a Kuwait Airways flight bound for Karachi. "We shall know their murderers with the long memories of those who believe in patient but certain justice," said Bush. "Civilized nations can and must resist terrorism and demand that governments have the decency to bring terrorists to justice...
...Iranian television cameras recorded a macabre scene at the top of the landing ramp. Gunmen wearing hoods pushed two hostages out through the door and handed a bullhorn to one of them. The man, who was wearing a white shirt, nervously introduced himself as the U.S. consul in Karachi and pleaded with negotiators to yield to the hijackers' demands. He said that they had begun a "countdown," and warned that "they are serious about their threats." The hostages were taken back inside the plane, but five minutes later the man in the white shirt reappeared atop the ramp...