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...attack in an attempt to overthrow ailing President Habib Bourguiba, 76. Though he did not mention Tunisia's oil-rich eastern neighbor by name, Kechrid clearly had Libya in mind when he denounced "a neighboring state specializing in this kind of operation." Premier Hedi Nouira also accused Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi of "a diabolic plot" to make it appear that Algeria was responsible for the attack. The Tunisians expelled the Libyan ambassador and withdrew their own envoy from Tripoli, a move just short of breaking diplomatic relations...
...cupcakes at 50 paces. One duelist was Dewi Sukarno, 39, the sloe-eyed, Japanese-born widow of the Indonesian strongman and a relentless Paris partygoer for the past half a dozen years. Her antagonist: the legendary Regine, 50, who has parlayed her soignée Paris boīte into a chain of expensive nightclubs reaching to New York and eight other cities. Three years ago, Regine barred Dewi from the Paris motherhouse for slapping another customer. Dewi sued in court, and now she has won a clear, if toothless, decision: the joint, ruled a French judge, is a public...
...Afghanistan would be bad news for detente and for U.S. peace initiatives in the Middle East. Also, in its eagerness to make friends in the Third World, the Administration tended to give the benefit of the doubt to leftists who also seemed to be nationalists. Pakistan's strongman, Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, warned that a Marxist government in Kabul, supported by the Soviets, had gravely upset the balance of power in the region. "The Russians are now at the Khyber Pass," Zia told TIME in September 1978-but that was simply not a message Washington wanted to hear...
...prisoners still address one another by their former titles, such as "President" and "Minister." Their cells are equipped with air conditioners, refrigerators and TV sets. Among their favorite forms of exercise: regular tennis matches, played on a well-kept court. Such is the style of life to which deposed Strongman George Papadopoulos and members of the former Greek military junta have become accustomed inside Athens' Korydallos prison, where they have been serving sentences since 1975. Details of the systematic coddling of the notorious jailbirds are contained in a recollection to be published in Athens this month, titled Prison Diary...
...Among them was his longtime mistress, Anahita Ratebzad, who had been packed off as Ambassador to Yugoslavia. When Taraki was overthrown-and killed-by Hafizullah Amin last September, Karmal was still underground. Diplomats speculated that the Soviets stashed him away in an Eastern European capital as a sort of strongman-in-reserve. As one expert puts it, "The Russians were keeping [him] on ice until [he was] needed...