Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...factors are at work to reduce the likelihood of such an explosion. The Indian-Soviet friendship treaty, signed early in August, deters India from waging war without consulting the Soviets. At the same time, rising discontent and political and economic pressures within West Pakistan have also placed restraints on Strongman Yahya Khan and his military regime. Nonetheless, war remains a distinct possibility. As Mrs. Gandhi said last week at a public meeting in South India: "We must be prepared for any eventuality...
...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...
...tumble to the hint or did not scare easily enough. Last week she was sentenced by a Greek military tribunal to 16 months in prison for her role in an aborted plot to free Alexandros Panaghoulis. 32, who was convicted in 1968 of trying to blow up Greek Strongman George Papadopoulos' automobile. Found guilty and sentenced to lesser terms were a lawyer friend of Panaghoulis', a prison guard and two Americans, Mrs. Athena Psychoghiou of Minneapolis, a friend of Panaghoulis' brother, and John Skelton, a Pennsylvania theology student, who received a suspended sentence and immediately left...
Though Amri insisted he was in Lebanon for "rest and medical treatment," President Iryani, whose own powers are greatly strengthened by the general's removal, promptly announced Amri's resignation as Premier and commander in chief. In the past, the wily strongman's usual tactic when opposed on one issue or another was to resign, repair to Beirut or Cairo for a few weeks, and await recall on his own terms. This time it looks doubtful that Amri will ever be invited back...
...Palestinian guerrillas who long operated freely within his country's borders. Only last month, in a continuing display of disunity, Syria and Iraq closed their borders with Jordan in protest against Hussein's routing of the guerrillas; two weeks ago, Libya's impetuous young strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, urged the Jordanian army to overthrow its King...