Word: rulers
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...become a habit in Pakistan that whenever a ruler's popularity disintegrates, he or she begins waving the scimitar of Islam. Never mind that not once since Pakistan became a nation 51 years ago has this noisy brandishing of faith ever worked to bolster the leader's popularity. Now, with Pakistan ostracized after its nuclear tests and on the edge of economic collapse, Prime Minister Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif is reviving the old custom of trying to make the Islamic Republic of Pakistan even more Islamic than it already...
...were trying to paste up your page and looking for the proper tools, and were silly enough to ask Pat if he'd seen any rulers lying around, he'd always reply, 'There's only one ruler in the shop (and that's me)," wrote Jessica A. Dorman '87, former Crimson president, in an e-mail message...
DIED. TODOR ZHIVKOV, 86, Bulgarian communist leader whose 35 years in office, the longest of any East bloc ruler, resulted largely from his acquiescence to Moscow; in Sofia. Zhivkov was ousted in a bloodless 1989 coup condoned by Gorbachev, but left the nation with a $10 billion foreign debt...
Nigeria's military ruler has laid his cards on the table: He'll hand over the reins of power to an elected civilian government next May. Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar announced Monday night that an elected government would take over on May 29, 1999, replacing the discredited political and electoral machinery established by his predecessor, General Sani Abacha. "The handover to civilian rule has been the key demand of the opposition," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "Indications had been that the military planned to indefinitely postpone the transition, and opposition groups weren't going to stand for that." If they believe...
...known only nine years of civilian rule. One of the few politicians capable of uniting the nation might be recently released prisoner General Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo has support both in the rebellious south and among his former colleagues in the military -- and he's the only Nigerian military ruler ever to have handed over power to an elected civilian government...