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Months before his visit to Africa last week, Chief of Correspondents Henry Muller filed a request for an interview with Ethiopian Leader Mengistu Haile Mariam. Success seemed unlikely. Mengistu has been largely inaccessible to the Western press in the dozen years since he and fellow military officers overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie. Muller had reason to hope he might be an exception. Eighteen years earlier, he and his wife Maggie McComas, now an associate editor at FORTUNE, had gone to Ethiopia to teach school as Peace Corps volunteers. Just as Muller was about to embark, word was passed along from Addis...
Rosales denied accusations that most contra leaders served as national guardsmen under Nicaragua's former dictator Anastasio Somoza, whom the Sandinistas overthrew, although critics of the contras charge otherwise...
...dramatic return last week was made possible by Zia's decision last Dec. 30 to suspend martial law for the first time in 8 1/2 years. Zia took power in a 1977 coup d'etat that overthrew Benazir's father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Two years later, he allowed the elder Bhutto to be hanged in connection with an alleged murder plot against a political rival. Last year Zia engineered the ^ first steps toward a new Pakistani democracy by allowing long-promised parliamentary elections, though he banned political parties. After martial law was lifted, he turned over many government functions...
When the military overthrew the 16-year regime of President Gaafar Nimeiri in a bloodless coup last year, Lieut. General Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, the Defense Minister who spearheaded the rebellion, moved into the colonial-style Presidential Palace on the banks of the Blue Nile in Khartoum. Grateful citizens slaughtered a cow in a traditional housewarming gesture to welcome the new leader, but Suwar al Dahab told them his stay would be short. Within a year, he promised, he would hold free elections and turn power over to a civilian government. Last week, Suwar al Dahab showed that...
...military junta, led by General Augusto Pinochet and backed by the United States, overthrew the Allende regime. The coup toppled not only the nation's popular leader but also the nation's tradition of democracy. Chile progresses in peace and order...