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What Moussavi got instead was a split decision: he and 15 Cabinet ministers won approval, but five officials, including Defense Minister Muhammad Salimi, were dismissed. Salimi's ouster was not tied to the conduct of Iran's four-year war with Iraq, since military strategy rests with Iran's generals and Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's inner circle. Instead, Salimi was accused of not weeding out waste in the country's defense budget...
Only four months ago, Iranian officials bluntly told Turkish President Kenan Evren that they "saw no benefit in mediation." Their demands for peace talks: war reparations from Iraq and the ouster of President Saddam Hussein. Last May, however, the Iranians stopped demanding that Iraq pay for the war and accepted a U.N.-sponsored cease-fire protecting civilian targets. Iran not only agreed to allow observers into the country to monitor the ceasefire, but also urged that it be extended to gulf shipping. Iraq rejected the proposal because it made no allowances for the reopening of Iraqi ports, closed...
...little immediate likelihood in Srinagar that the action would lead to the type of bloody confrontation that claimed more than 600 lives in Amritsar. The troops had been sent to Jammu and Kashmir to keep the peace as the state government was being rocked by New Delhi's ouster of the freely elected Chief Minister, Farooq Abdullah. The beneficiary, and undoubted instigator, of the incident was Mrs. Gandhi and her Hindu-dominated Congress (I) Party...
...later, as the widow of Juan Perón prepared to return to Spain, where she has lived in exile since her ouster by a military junta in 1976, a bomb was found aboard the plane. Quickly transferring to another aircraft, she told well-wishers, "Nobody dies five minutes before one's time...
...praising President Suazo following the ouster, U.S. officials said that they were surprised but undisturbed by the sudden purge. There is considerable justification for Washington's confidence, since for the past two years Suazo has faithfully echoed Alvarez's boosterism on every aspect of U.S.-Honduran military cooperation. Some Hondurans, however, appear to feel differently. As the Granadero exercises rolled ahead, an estimated 4,000 demonstrators marched through the streets of Tegucigalpa denouncing government oppression and demanding an end to the U.S. military presence in Honduras. It was the first significant protest demonstration in the country in more...