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...doctrinaire Marxist, Ismail seized power in mid-1978 as head of a triumvirate that overthrew (and executed) President Salem Robaye Ali for "laxism toward reactionary states." Ismail strengthened his country's ties with Moscow and last year signed a friendship treaty with the U.S.S.R. Soviet arms and experts poured into South Yemen, raising the specter of a Soviet-run military base near the oilfields and shipping lanes of the Persian Gulf. Ismail proved to be such a loyal friend of Moscow's that he was the only Arab head of state to endorse openly the Soviet invasion...
...vote for the first time. But this reform came too late to assuage a growing civilian opposition to his rule as well as deepening resentment in his own armed forces. In the end, it was a band of country people in the enlisted ranks of the army who overthrew...
...engulfed Baluchistan between 1973 and 1977, when the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ah" Bhutto sought to impose the central government's authority on the province. That conflict cost the lives of 3,300 Pakistani soldiers and at least 5,300 Baluchi guerrillas. When General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq overthrew Bhutto in 1977, he declared an amnesty and released political prisoners...
...Marxist coup in which Noor Mohammed Taraki overthrew Daoud in April 1978 surprised the Soviets as much as it did the Americans. Western intelligence has not been able to find Russian fingerprints on the scene of "the April revolution," but the Soviets wasted no time in placing advisers in all the important ministries and down to the company level in the armed forces...
Beneath him in a solitary cell on the ground floor is Dimitrios loannidis, who overthrew Papadopoulos in 1973 to become dictator himself until democracy was restored in 1974. Ioannidis spends most of his time alone, reading military history and books about the CIA. Even so, he occasionally gives parties in his cell that are attended by convicted torturers, members of his despised ESA military police, who reside on the third floor. The bumpkin of the bunch, according to Papathanassiou, is former Deputy Premier Stylianos Pattakos, whose meek acceptance of abuse by fellow inmates and blind devotion to " his President" make...