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...prime mover behind the military action, by all accounts, was Lieut. General Chun Du Hwan, 48, the shadowy military Lieut. General Chun strongman behind the weak caretaker Cabinet of President Choi Kyu Hah, 60. Chun, a tough career soldier who once fought alongside U.S. forces in Viet Nam, assumed effective control behind the scenes following his couplike arrest last December of the former martial law commander, General Chung Seung Hwa. Chun has insisted, "I have no political ambitions," but he added to his personal power last month by appointing himself acting chief of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency...
Still skeptical, the State Department believes the four agents were linked to a larger network of Libyan terrorists who are plotting to eliminate opponents of Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Within Libya this year, up to 2,000 people have been arrested for alleged disloyalty to Gaddafi. The mercurial colonel's latest project is building a $3 billion protective wall along 187 miles of Libya's border with Egypt. Gaddafi, whose erratic rule seems to be widely resented by his fellow citizens, has warned Libyan dissidents abroad that they are "doomed" unless they return home...
...began patching up quarrels with his neighbors. Within a day of taking office, he sent a special envoy to Saudi Arabia, whose approval is essential for unification with North Yemen. That goal may be closer than ever. Replying to a friendly overture from Nasser Muhammad, North Yemen's strongman, Lieut. Colonel Ali Abdullah Saleh, expressed his conviction that "relations between the two parties of Yemen will be favorably reinforced, in order to achieve the full unity of Yemen...
Sergeant Doe, now Africa's youngest strongman, became enraged at Tolbert during last year's rice riots. A brisk, jaunty, slightly built man, he is the son of an impoverished farmer from the small Krahn tribe. He left school after the eleventh grade and joined the army. Last year he took an advanced training course from a U.S. Army special forces detachment in Liberia. Like Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 33, who led a coup in neighboring Ghana last year, Doe has a flair for the dramatic. During his first TV address as head of state, he wore sunglasses...
...proposed $400 million U.S. aid package. Pakistani officials complained that the $200 million in military credits offered by the U.S. in the overall package was worse than nothing, since it would be totally insufficient to deter a Soviet threat. "What do I buy with $200 million?" asked Pakistani Strongman General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. "The hostility of the Soviet Union, and that does not suit me." He later hinted that he might soon visit Moscow to shore up relations...