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...battle among ghosts. She was driven by a fierce longing to avenge her father's death. Amid charges of corruption, election-rigging and autocracy, the elder Bhutto was toppled from power in 1977 by Zia, who two years later authorized Bhutto's execution. "I told him on my oath in his death cell, I would carry on his work," Benazir Bhutto once said. In achieving victory by playing up her father's name and his strong populist appeal, she in effect vindicated his chaotic 5 1/2-year rule. Moreover, by besting the eight-party Alliance, which included many supporters...
...most recently appeared in the headlines when he received a subpoena to testify in the perjury trial of former White House aide Michael K. Deaver. The grand jury summoned Gotlieb and his wife Sondra in May, 1987, citing his close relationship with Deaver, who was accused of lying under oath about his lobbying contract with the Canadian government...
EVEN before President-elect George Bush takes the oath of office next January, the campaign to succeed Gov. Michael S. Dukakis as Bush's Democratic challenger will have begun in earnest. In the upcoming four-year campaign for the 1992 nomination, the Democrats can look forward to more internecine squabbling and ideological blood-letting. Scarcely a week after the election, the battle lines are already drawn...
...hearing on defense issues, member Caspar Weinberger was up to his old game, calling for increased spending. Democratic Co-Chairman Robert Strauss took him to task for proposing new outlays without providing fresh income. Strauss reminded the former Defense Secretary that members had sworn an "oath to deal with the deficit." Weinberger retorted that there was nothing "so sacred" about Social Security that should prevent it from being tapped for defense. An outraged AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland vowed to oppose any such moves, with street protests if necessary. The divisions are likely to worsen after the presidential election, since...
Lyndon Johnson in Dallas acted first to thwart a possible plot against the traveling party, comforted Jacqueline Kennedy, took the oath and roared back to Washington. There was nothing brilliant about these acts of common sense clearly defined by the demands of the moment...