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Bahai began in 1844 when a young Persian merchant boldly announced that he was the Bab (Gate), the divinely inspired spokesman long awaited by Shiite Moslems.*Bab was arrested and shot by the Persian government in 1850, largely because his fanatical followers were plotting to overthrow the Shah and replace him with a theocracy. Bab left the leadership of his sect to a 19-year-old follower whose authority was eventually usurped by his elder halfbrother. The brother took the name Baha'u'llah (Glory of God), excommunicated or had murdered the minority of Babis who opposed...
...politely, and the hundreds of straw-hat peasants trucked into the capital stood passively. The country's new military strongman was addressing them. On a balcony of the avocado green national palace, Army Colonel Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 54, explained what was in store for the country following his overthrow of President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes. He began by proclaiming Decree Law No. 1: subject-labor reform. Peralta promised equal pay for both Indians and whites, an eight-hour day and a 48-hour week, paid vacations, maternity leave, the right of farm labor to organize unions, "encouragement" of low-cost...
...signed confession, Quinim's assassin, a lance corporal named Chy Kong, charged Quinim with trying to overthrow the government and bribing neutralist officers to defect to the Pathet Lao forces encamped in the Plaine des Jarres, where at week's end fighting broke out that caused 20 casualties. Asked if he agreed that Quinim had been proCommunist, Premier Souvanna Phouma replied simply: "He is dead. Peace to his soul...
Last week the general decided to turn off the heat. Reneging on his promise to restore civilian rule, Park slapped a ban on all political parties, prohibited "political agitation" in the press, jailed 30 plotters-including some former junta members-accused of trying to overthrow his regime. Ignoring the resignation of his Cabinet, Park suspended next May's scheduled elections, announced that the populace instead would vote in a new referendum designed to keep him in absolute power for another four years...
...replying, "We do not advocate an invasion or an occupation," said he in a letter that ran in the Washington Post two days after Lippmann's column appeared. What he wanted all along, said Pulliam, was "a forceful American policy, aimed at Castro's isolation and eventual overthrow" by partial blockade or quarantine. "The day President Kennedy proclaimed the American quarantine last October, we wrote that the Russians would accept it, while a lot of 'liberal' commentators, including Mr. Lippmann, expected the Russians to 'challenge' the American Navy or to start a nuclear...