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...people of both East and West Pakistan responded to the increasingly totalitarian nature of their government and the increasing income disparities in their country with large-scale urban rioting in 1968-69 that forced President Ayub Khan to resign. A token reshuffling of generals produced a new strongman, Yahya Khan, who continued the same repressive civil and economic policies. As the elite in West Pakistan consolidated its control, East Pakistan increasingly approximated a colony of the West, supplying raw materials to Western industry and serving as a market for the finished products. Political domination of the East by the Western...
...National Committee. He is slotted for a key role at the four regional conferences of Republican Governors next month. He may also take heart from the fact that 1968's old standbys are assuming the same jobs in the 1972 campaign. Attorney General John Mitchell is expected to resign in January to manage the campaign, and Maurice Stans will quit as Secretary of Commerce to take charge of fund raising...
...read, then hastily downed a glass of water. He avoided looking at his wife Barbara, who collapsed in tears. Outside the court, Medina told newsmen: "I feel no bitterness at all." In fact he might have felt extreme gratitude for being let off. Nevertheless he still planned to resign from the Army. "I just personally feel within myself that I cannot wear the uniform with the same pride I had before." He is not sure what he will do next, but he has been offered a job by Florida Cosmetics Millionaire Glenn Turner, who also contributed...
...ballot box. He also made no effort to head off an embarrassing vote by the usually tractable South Vietnamese Senate. Calling the one-man race a "threat to the country," the Senate passed a resolution by a vote of 28 to 3, with 28 abstentions, urging Thieu to resign and turn the government over to the Senate Speaker, who would organize new elections...
Smith may back out of any agreement with Britain, as he did in 1966 and again in 1968. He is vulnerable to criticism from ultraconservatives in his Rhodesian Front party; a dozen of them have already threatened to resign if he compromises the power of Rhodesia's 250,000 whites over 5 million Africans. It also remains to be seen whether the U.S. Senate vote last week to lift the embargo on Rhodesian chrome might strengthen the hand of Rhodesia's hardliners...