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Instant Divorce. In fact, President Ayub left Pakistan little opportunity to do otherwise. Forbidden under martial law to use party labels, most candidates for the 150 seats in Pakistan's new National Assembly campaigned on the bland platform of "identification with the ideology of Pakistan." They were not elected directly by the people but by an elite electorate consisting of 80.000 members of village and town councils-less than one-thousandth of the population-whom Ayub calls "persons of status in their communities." In the average constituency, six candidates vied for only 500 votes. While the electors, or basic...
...rigidly follow the Western system." Heresy or not, if this week's elections for the provincial assemblies follow the pattern of voting for the National Assembly. Ayub Khan will be under strong pressure from unlike-minded politicians to restore a greater measure of democracy when martial law is lifted in June...
...think we all are of low intelligence not to see through his political maneuvers. We vote for those who serve the majority well." Nothing in the letter violated Army regulations, but Chidester made the mistake of getting 74 of his buddies to sign it -and found himself facing court-martial under charges of action prejudicial to good order and discipline...
...unhappy reservists at Fort Polk that drew as many as 700 men. When the meetings were banned by his commanding general, Owen told a newsman that the order was "a hilarious climax to a chain of injustices." For such disrespect to a superior officer, Owen got a court-martial sentence of a $300 fine and six months at hard labor...
...word reached the capital of Damascus that 20 "moderate" Syrian military men had been murdered by Nasserite mobs. While he quietly made sure of the loyalty of other garrisons. General Zahreddin imposed martial law on Damascus, closed the nation's borders and airports, and sited batteries of recoilless guns on the road to Aleppo...