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Noted Philippine dissident Benigno A. Aquino, who was one of the first jailed when President Fernand E. Marcos imposed martial law in 1972, said yesterday he would accept a fellowship at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) instead of returning as promised to incarceration in Manila...
...underfoot by those who want to split the country," the soldiers appear unwilling to be dragged into a coup. Senior officers privately admit that there is little they can do to stop the killings beyond what they are already doing in the 20 provinces in which the army administers martial law. Moreover, intervention by the army would upset Turkey's Western allies, which are in no mood to tolerate a military dictatorship in a NATO country. A coup would also jeopardize the flow of Western aid and bank credits, key factors in Demirel's effort to prop...
...honor Ohira, Carter sat through a two-hour service in the Budokan, a martial-arts hall redecorated for the occasion. Premier Hua, dressed in a gray Mao jacket, was in the front row and, although the two men did not meet, they looked firmly at each other, as though each was taking the other's measure...
Ever since they shouldered their way to power in the wake of President Park Chung Hee's assassination last October, South Korea's military strongmen have pressed a campaign of "purification" against corruption. Last week the Martial Law Command announced the results of a monthlong investigation that followed the sudden arrest often of the country's most prominent citizens. Nine of the ten, it was charged, had chalked up a total of $142.1 million in ill-gotten wealth through "abuse of power...
...ritual as regular as the seasons. On one day every spring and autumn, railway stations across the Soviet Union are festooned with patriotic banners, bands blare stirring martial rhythms, and local dignitaries make speeches praising soldierly virtues. Then, as crowds of tearful friends and relatives wave farewell, anxious young men climb aboard the waiting train: they are the current crop of 18-year-old Soviet draftees?about 1 million a year?heading off to begin their military service. After basic training and indoctrination at the camps, invariably hundreds of miles from their birthplaces, they will take a solemn oath...