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...Koranic law in that country. Whipping, amputation and death, along with prison terms, were prescribed for a long list of crimes, ranging from theft, armed robbery and insulting the modesty of a woman to political activities, labor organizing and striking. General Zia ul-Haq, the new chief administrator of martial law, decreed that there would be no amputations without his approval and that anesthesia would be used. Nonetheless, the threat was apparently sufficient to cause a sharp drop in crime...
...general also said that President Fazal Elahi Chaudhry would continue as head of state, the 1973 constitution would remain in force, and he himself would serve as martial-law administrator. The chief justices of the high courts in the four provinces, he added, had agreed to serve as provincial governors. Zia's announcement brought a round of cheers even from opposition politicians. They assumed that the military takeover would increase their chances of winning the elections...
...Nationalist China, the defection to Taiwan last week of Communist Squadron Commander Fan Yuan-yen in his MiG-19 was the best piece of news since the death of Mao Tse-tung nearly a year ago. Radio stations played stirring martial music between special news flashes, and people set off firecrackers in the streets in celebration...
...Ernst, not the empty doodle by Georges Mathieu that hangs next to Pollock's Number 32. The dismal efforts of French artists to turn their Dada heritage into American Pop are much in evidence. But it is one thing to dis inter the unmourned trivialities of people like Martial Raysse and quite an other to claim that they have any historical weight. There is no level on which the last part of "Paris - New York" can be taken seriously. If this is how the Pompidou Center intends to treat the history of modern culture, then God help poor Clio...
However, the geographer's discipline and intellect turn out to mask a fanatic's zeal. He imposes an implacable martial law and calmly uses torture to recruit troops from the countryside. Even his eccentric respect for the humanity of the natives becomes a form of arrogance. He enjoys publicly parading his black consort in order to mortify the provincial gentilities of the merchants' wives. His ascendancy, far from a triumph of the humane or heroic, is a kind of parable of the tendency of a fearful populace to conspire in the rise of a dictator...