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What will happen in post-Khomeini Iran depends on the interplay of such political forces as the clergy, the military, and some of the opposition forces. The Left, which is now fragmented, might unite to influence the succession after Khomeini, just as it did in the struggle to overthrow the Shah. Some clergymen who have coexisted with Khomeni without totally or irreversibly identifying with his despotism may also act, particularly if this crisis degenerates into a civil...
Security was stepped up sharply. For the first time since the overthrow of Marcos, reporters were not allowed on the Malacanang Palace grounds. Checkpoints were installed on roads leading into the capital. In midafternoon, as soon as she had told the nation of her decision to oust Enrile, the President gave the oath of office to Ileto. Then she went to the Quirino grandstand in Manila's Rizal Park and declared at a religious rally that the country had been spared a catastrophe. "I suppose our prayers have again been answered," she said, "because this afternoon we have once again...
...President of the Philippines and Ferdinand Marcos fled the country for exile abroad. It was the final act of a morality play, in which the courageous widow of a martyred Filipino leader, starting without political experience or power, had "spoken truth to power" and mobilized the Philippine people to overthrow an entrenched, autocratic head of state...
...MIDST of so momentous a triumph, her powers and those of the people she led seemed capable of surmounting any problem. However, the unity of the people's crusade to overthrow Marcos masked the widely divergent interests of the groups that formed that movement...
...President will have his hands full, especially if he is to avert a confrontation between his desperately poor, war-racked country and Pretoria. Last week South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha charged that documents recovered from the crash indicated that Machel and officials in Zimbabwe had plotted the overthrow of Malawi's Hastings Banda, President of the only black African state that maintains full diplomatic relations with Pretoria. In the event of a coup, warned Botha, the "whole of southern Africa would pay a heavy price...