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After subsiding for nearly a decade, inflation is now racing upward at the stunning annual rate of 106.8%. Ironically, that is even a little higher than the rate that prompted Brazil's generals in 1964 to overthrow duly elected President Joáo Goulart and establish a military dictatorship. Meanwhile, the Brazilian cruzeiro continues to plummet in value-from 26 to 54 per $1 during the past twelve months. Unemployment is climbing, and only a fraction of the young people entering the labor pool each year ever find jobs. One consequence: alarming crime rates in the ever more overcrowded...
...right side by Crown Prince Reza, with its head resting on a pillow of sand, according to Shi'ite custom. On his deathbed the Shah had asked to be buried ultimately in Tehran near his executed generals, named Son Reza as his successor and prayed for the overthrow of the Ayatullah Khomeini...
...flames of vengeance once again raged over the Islamic Republic of Iran. The government took the extraordinary step last week of closing its borders for four days as officials marshaled a gigantic man hunt for fugitives accused of involvement in a military plot to overthrow the regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. The vengeance even spread abroad as a hit squad in Paris tried to assassinate former Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar, the man many Iranians believed had masterminded the July 9 coup attempt...
Meanwhile Banisadr had acquired some new enemies and problems. In an electrifying television broadcast last week, he told the nation that a military plot to overthrow his government had been foiled on the eve of a coup d'état. Seventeen officers from an armored division had already been put on trial, he said. The plot was said to have been organized at a military base near the western Iranian city of Hamadan. At week's end, there were reports that 350 more conspirators, including such high-ranking officers as the former air force commander and the chief...
...Duvalier's marriage to Michèle-a divorcee whose former father-in-law once tried to overthrow Baby Doc's late father, "Papa Doc" Duvalier-signal a possible new moderation? Probably not. The real significance seemed to be the consolidation of Baby Doc's power within the family fiefdom, in which his mother, Simone, for instance, still holds the title of First Lady of the Republic. In this dynastic system, a princely heir will help ensure perpetual rule...