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John was arrested in March for plotting to overthrow the government. Detained earlier were two officials of Dominica's 100-man army, one of whom wrote a letter that the government intercepted...
...main groups-the Uganda Freedom Movement, composed mainly of Obote-hating Baganda tribesmen, and the People's Revolutionary Army led by ex-Defense Minister Yoweri Museveni-are biding their time until June. That is when the 10,000 Tanzanian troops who remained in Uganda after they helped to overthrow Amin in 1979 are scheduled to be withdrawn. Their departure will leave a dangerous power vacuum. Speculates a Western diplomat: "Any of three things could happen. Obote might hang on. The guerrillas might overthrow him. Or he might be ousted by dissatisfied elements within his own party...
...University of Houston. He was a refugee from torture and terror, a refugee who nonetheless hoped to one day return home to a more tolerant and stable country. But contrary to the hopes of Kazem and thousands of other Iranian students, political oppression did not end with the overthrow of the Shah's regime, and under the country's new 84-year-old leader. Ayatollah Khomeini, government by decapitation flourished. In the eyes of Kazem, indeed in the eyes of most of the nations of the world, who watched with disbelief as 52 Americans were taken hostage and paraded through...
Until noon, the country was at a standstill, as millions of Poles downed their tools in the latest-and perhaps riskiest-confrontation with the Warsaw regime. "We don't want to overthrow the Communist Party," Solidarity Union Leader Lech Walesa told fellow strikers at a Warsaw steel mill. "We only want to get rid of the people who are putting the brakes on Poland's renewal." Specifically, he meant the officials responsible for a police attack two weeks ago on 26 union members in Bydgoszcz. Beyond that, however, Walesa and his comrades were boldly challenging a powerful group...
...content to harass those two prominent dissident leaders, Polish authorities charged four members of an obscure right-wing organization with seeking to overthrow the state. The accused men, who were already serving jail terms, belonged to the Confederation of Independent Poland (KPN), a nationalistic group formed in 1979 with the avowed goal of ousting the Communists. Their leader, Leszek Moczulski, was arrested last September on charges of slandering the state in a magazine interview. The regime may not want to seek the maximum death penalty for the four, but it could decide that a show trial against them would...