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...successive years of the ruinous drought that led to thousands of deaths by starvation, the Dergue has had to cope with a staggering array of other problems, including widespread internal discontent, armed rebellion in the countryside, and bitter antagonisms with neighboring countries. After visiting Ethiopia, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter reported...
...knew we had a really good chance, but we thought that Kirkland would be in there too," said Mather coxswain Maurice McWhirter after the race. Kirkland, though, was a distant sixth, never a factor in the race...
...urbane, silver-haired Seni has been Prime Minister twice before-briefly. He appeared as surprised as anyone by Kukrit's unexpected defeat. "The people felt my brother's government just wasn't firm enough," he told TIME Cor respondent William McWhirter last week, "but to be fair, they did the best they could." Kukrit had trouble governing the country almost from the time he took office in March 1975 as successor to Seni, whose government had lasted only eight days before losing a vote of confidence. Kukrit's Social Action coalition included 17 parties, a bloc...
Thus there are fears that sooner or later the army may move to seize power. "There is nothing to prevent them if they have a mind to do so," Seni told McWhirter last week. "They, after all, have the guns." Seni knows this all too well -he was Prime Minister for a scant four months in 1946 before being ousted by a military coup...
...terror. In sharp contrast to Laos and Viet Nam, where party cadres have subtly tried to win popular support for social change, there are no revolutionary songs, slogans, poetry, party newspapers or "reeducation" centers to explain the purpose and ideology of the revolution. Instead, refugees told TIME Correspondents William McWhirter and David Aikman there has been a grim, silent round of purges, mass evacuations, forced labor and willful assassinations that have swept up the innocent along with the guilty...