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...compromise. Last week he headed off a crisis that could have led to further fragmentation of his country. In an important concession to his chief rival, Pathan Community Leader Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Bhutto announced that he would restore Pakistan to democratic government next August. "The curse of martial law will be buried forever, God willing," he pledged in a radio address...
Smuggled Rifles. The further breakup of Pakistan is a nightmare that has become a possibility-though no more than that as yet-in the aftermath of last December's war with India. Since then, continued martial law has provided a focus for the historic nationalism of the warlike Pathan and Baluch tribesmen. Russian-supplied automatic rifles are being smuggled across the frontier from Afghanistan, evidently destined for the 6,000-strong Zalme Pakhtoon (Pathan Youth). A bloody riot erupted in Quetta, a city in Baluchistan, after Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto appointed governors for the two provinces from...
...Bhutto still faces widespread criticism for clinging to martial law and delaying his country's return to democracy. Opponents suspect that he is using the delay for political advantage. An interim constitution, now under preparation, is believed by his rivals to provide for a presidential instead of a parliamentary system of government-with Bhutto as a supremely powerful President. He promises to lift martial law and restore democracy "well before the end of the year." But in the meantime, he told Correspondent Coggin, "martial law serves as a psychological deterrent to other forms of unrest." Bhutto is thus relying...
...Unexpectedly he is visited by two Army buddies. This is no sentimental reunion, but a tense, eventually violent rite of retribution. The friends have only recently been released from prison terms stemming from their participation in a wartime atrocity. Bill was a key witness against them at their court-martial...
Rough Justice. In Uganda, Amin is the law, and he is clearly in no hurry to return Uganda to civilian rule. Currently, all Cabinet members are forced to accept commissions as junior officers in the army, which handily makes them subject to courts-martial in cases of malfeasance. Amin, though, pays relatively little attention to his Cabinet. Much of the nation's business is conducted at barazas-informal, impromptu powwows at which Big Daddy sits down with tribesmen, hears their complaints and dispenses rough justice...