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...early January, Choto wrote an article in the Zimbabwe Standard--a weekly based in the capital city of Harare--about an attempted coup within the Zimbabwe National Army to overthrow the government. Chavunduka is the Standard's editor...
...caused by Saddam?s failure to distribute humanitarian supplies allowed through under the embargo). In addition, as a senior administration official told the Times, unless the U.S. and its allies are prepared to send in ground troops, the best Washington can hope for is to contain - rather than overthrow - Saddam?s regime. And containment is a strategy pursued in the news briefs rather than the headlines...
...sure, the biggest street demonstrations since the overthrow of the shah in 1979 were a dramatic wake-up call to the conservative clergy who are Iran?s self-appointed supreme rulers, despite parliamentary and presidential elections that allow the population a limited outlet for their own views. The frustrations of a generation raised under the Islamic revolution poured out in unprecedented six days of confrontations with authority, in which students dared challenge the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini. But the reformers? strong suit is not street battles; it?s elections. Next March, Iranians go to the polls to elect...
...bloody raid on protesters at a Tehran University dormitory. Both sides, then, recognize the need to maintain a balance. And despite the disappointment of many democracy-minded students over Khatami?s condemnation, he and the students continue to share the same goals. "Iran?s students are not trying to overthrow Khatami?s government," says Dowell. "They?re trying to spur on its reform program and defend it from conservative attack...
DIED. COLONEL GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS, 80, Greek dictator; in Athens. In 1967 Papadopoulos helped overthrow King Constantine and was installed as Prime Minister. His junta tortured and killed opponents and banned such Western styles as long hair on men and miniskirts for women. Overthrown in 1973, Papadopoulos was sentenced to life in prison for treason...