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...mansion. With the Marcoses seated stiffly at his side, he scolded the President in some of the sternest language that diplomacy admits. He said that he was pleased at "recent initiatives"-meaning the lifting of martial law-but proceeded to challenge the rationale upon which Marcos had built his strongman rule. "A legitimate preoccupation with the security of the state," warned the Pontiff, "could lead to the temptation to subjugate the people, their dignity and their rights to the state." Discarding a prepared reply, Marcos seemed chastened in his first response: "Forgive us, Holy Father. Now that you are here...
...smile on President Reagan's face was warm and friendly as he and Wife Nancy stood on the South Portico of the White House. A limousine drew up to deliver their first visiting head of state: Chun Doo Hwan, the balding former paratrooper who is now strongman of South Korea...
...protests and low-key threats to head off his execution. More than that, one day before the Supreme Court upheld Kim's death penalty, President Reagan's formal invitation to Chun to visit Washington was announced. The invitation, which Chun has accepted, will make the South Korean strongman one of the first foreign leaders to be received at the White House since Reagan's Inauguration. It would scarcely do for him to arrive with blood on his hands. Indeed, the new Administration would never have issued the invitation if it thought such an event likely...
...vaunted ambition to establish a Saharan Islamic empire, Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi has searched hard for a suitable first partner. In the eleven years since coming to power, he has at various times tried to woo Egypt, the Sudan, Syria and Tunisia into joining him in a "federation," "union" or "merger," all without any tangible success...
Certainly the trial's credibility was not helped by elements like the charge that Jiang had "slandered" Strongman Deng Xiaoping. In fact, her only provable action brought out in court was sending emissaries to Mao to try to persuade him not to make Deng a Vice Premier, a perhaps imprudent act but hardly a criminal one. Also damaging to China's official claim that the trial was a "milestone" for its new legal system was the flimsiness of most of the evidence. The indictment, for example, declares that more than 34,000 people died during the Cultural Revolution...