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...military by retiring more than half the country's 103 generals and placing new commanders in all four of the armed services. But here too the government is divided. Aquino's 26-member Cabinet includes both military hard-liners like Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, the architect of martial law during the Marcos regime, and human rights activists who wish to investigate alleged army offenses. The rift between the civilian and the military factions has been seized upon by the Communists as yet another reason not to accept Aquino's invitation to disarm. "How can she secure her share...
...recent years a number of studies and widely publicized malpractice suits ( have spotlighted the problem of medical incompetence and, particularly, the lack of disciplinary surveillance. The court-martial of Naval Surgeon Donal Billig earlier this year for involuntary manslaughter was a notorious case in point. Despite a record of having been fired by hospitals in two states, being legally blind in one eye and demonstrating skills that were described by a colleague as those of "a first-year resident," Billig had risen to be chief cardiac surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital, one of the nation's premier military medical centers...
Three times he had scheduled general elections, then canceled them after the opposition threatened boycotts. This time martial law Ruler Lieut. General Hossain Mohammed Ershad, who seized power in a 1982 coup, promised that the first voting in Bangladesh in seven years would take place in a "free, fair and peaceful atmosphere." It did not quite work out that way. At least twelve people were killed and 400 arrested last week amid blatant vote rigging, intimidation and violence, most of it committed by supporters of Ershad's Jatiya Party. At week's end the official count gave Jatiya 82 seats...
Take the Philippines. It is widely suggested that Marcos was an archvillain from the start and that only U.S. support kept him in power. The fact is that despite deep and beneficial American influence, Philippine society has always had difficulty in sustaining democracy. When Marcos declared martial law, the country was in violent turmoil. For years his regime was quite tolerable because it provided stability, and supporting Marcos was a sound U.S. policy --up to a point. Exactly when that point was reached is hard to determine. It can be argued that the U.S. should have pulled back from Marcos...
...dramatic return last week was made possible by Zia's decision last Dec. 30 to suspend martial law for the first time in 8 1/2 years. Zia took power in a 1977 coup d'etat that overthrew Benazir's father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Two years later, he allowed the elder Bhutto to be hanged in connection with an alleged murder plot against a political rival. Last year Zia engineered the ^ first steps toward a new Pakistani democracy by allowing long-promised parliamentary elections, though he banned political parties. After martial law was lifted, he turned over many government functions...