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With halting steps, the pallid but ever fierce Iranian leader Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 86, last week stepped out of his long seclusion. He appeared at the Jamaran mosque outside Tehran, where he made a speech to mark the eighth anniversary of the Shah's overthrow...
Rumors flew last month that unnamed right-wing politicians in San Salvador were hard at work trying to persuade senior military officers to overthrow President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The flurry of speculation quickly fizzled out when Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Adolfo Blandon publicly reiterated his support for the President...
...ailing prisoner permission to travel to the U.S. for triple-bypass heart surgery. With a trumped-up death sentence over his head at home, Ninoy settled down after his operation in a red brick house in the affluent Boston suburb of Newton. There he returned to scheming for the overthrow of Marcos, while Cory resumed her favored routine of browsing through department stores, raising bonsai trees and relaxing over Falcon Crest and Dallas. Her American neighbors remember the President of the Philippines especially for her Peking duck...
...Israeli who participated in U.S.-approved sales to Iran in 1985 of American weapons from Israeli stockpiles reveals that some of the proceeds were originally supposed to be funneled back into Iran to finance groups working to overthrow the Khomeini government. He displayed a memo written to Shimon Peres, then Israeli Prime Minister, which named this ingenious scheme of having the Ayatullah finance his own downfall as one of the goals of the arms sales...
...revolutionary onslaught," which was sweeping the country, amounted to a "coordinated attempt to overthrow the government." With that piece of hyperbole by an information official, South Africa last week imposed one of the most draconian censorship policies in the non-Communist world. Only six months after it had decreed a harsh emergency rule in an effort to quell rising racial unrest, the government of State President P.W. Botha now sought to shroud the country's apartheid-torn society in a veil of secrecy and intimidation. Though the move was aimed principally at curtailing the domestic and foreign press, its overall...