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...fore the revolution last October," said a now jobless politician, "I thought one of the most dangerous things you can do is to break a constitution, even if it is to stop evil. On the day after, I thought: 'Thank God someone had the courage.'" Says beefy, Sandhurst-trained General Mohammed Ayub Khan, Pakistan's military dictator and president: "We have a few jobs to do. Then we shall hand back the power of choice to the people...
...task," said General Mohammed Ayub Khan not long ago, "is to keep the army sound and intact and out of politics." Graduate of Sandhurst and Commander-in-Chief since 1951 of the army of the democratic state of Pakistan, Ayub is understandably proud of a fighting force considered the best east of the Suez. So are his countrymen. If you ask them to tell you about their country, most Pakistanis will begin with their army rather than their feudal agricultural system, ramshackle economy, or spectacularly corrupt politics. Today, however, as chief of the new military dictatorship of Pakistan, General Ayub...
...with a clipped British mustache and a clipped British accent, he has the look of a slightly heftier (210 Ibs.) Brian Donlevy. Offering the newsmen cigarettes and lemonade, he urged that no one worry about the deposed President because his good friend (and fellow graduate at Sandhurst) was being retired on a double pension and was leaving for Britain, as "it might be too embarrassing for him to stay here." Why had he fired Mirza? "Somehow or other, people felt that he was as much responsible for the political deterioration as anyone else." Besides, the armed farces wanted...
Viscount Montgomery's line was war. Sandhurst. 3½ years with the regular Army, and active service in France in World War I were more than prep schools on the way to promotion. In marching infantry prose, his book makes it plain that when he took command of the British Eighth Army in Africa in World War II, he was ready. According to him, and to history, he made Desert Fox Rommel fight Montgomery's kind of fight, and Monty won. Was he too tidy? Did all the pieces on his chess board have to be perfectly placed...
Along with Mirza, the army's commander in chief, General Mohammed Ayub Khan (another Sandhurst man), had long ago concluded that the army would have to step in. Dressed casually in white cotton slacks, brown loafers, green diamond-pattern socks, the tails of his tan-striped sports shirt hanging out, General Ayub Khan calmly explained: "We both came to the conclusion that the country was going to the dogs ... I said to the President: 'Are you going to act? If you do not, which Heaven forbid, we [the armed forces] shall force a change.' " Mirza waited...