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...British saw that they had intercepted reinforcements for the garrison. The British commander of the South Georgia task force decided to advance the timing of his attack. As Royal Marines Spokesman Lieut. Colonel Tim Donkin in London later summed up the decision: "He judged it right to move, and then to move very swiftly...
...have met Galtieri. Before me as I write is a handsome block of marble with the Argentine army's badge on it in metal and a little brass plate recording that it was given to General Sir John Hackett by Lieut. General Leopoldo Galtieri...
Washington's diplomatic campaign reached a crescendo early last week with the arrival in San Salvador of Lieut. General Vernon Walters, U.S. ambassador-at-large, and John Carbaugh, an aide to conservative Senator Jesse Helms. Meeting with the leaders of El Salvador's main political parties, Walters and Carbaugh discussed a letter from Secretary of State Alexander Haig that bluntly reiterated three conditions for continued U.S. support: 1) the formation of a government of national unity that would give the Christian Democrats power in proportion to their performance at the polls; 2) continued progress in land, economic...
...question in Bangladesh was not if, but when, the military would seize power again. Ever since he was elected last November, President Abdus Sattar, 76, a former justice of the supreme court, had resisted demands by the military for power in his government. Last week, in a predawn coup, Lieut. General Hossain Mohammed Ershad, 52, army chief of staff, ousted Sattar and in stalled himself as strongman. "I have no political ambition," the general asserted in a radio and television broadcast announcing the takeover. "My whole and sole aim is to re-establish democracy...
...broke away from Pakistan after a savage civil war. Its first and longest period of democratic rule ended abruptly when Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who led the independence movement and subsequently became the country's first elected Prime Minister, was assassinated in 1975. In a trio of coups, Lieut. General Mohammed Ziaur Rahman emerged as strongman, only to be assassinated by junior officers last May. Sattar, who was then Vice President, became acting President and led the country into elections...