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Tribal Balance. By last week something had to give-and it was the republican Cabinet. Out went Strongman Amri, and in as new Premier came Moderate Ahmed Noman, who had resigned as president of the republican Consultative Council last December in protest against Sallal's "failure to fulfill the people's aspirations," that is, his failure to negotiate instead of fight. Two Deputy Premiers had joined Noman in resigning, and one of them, Mohammed Zubeiri, had founded a group called Allah's Party as a third force to unite royalists and republicans. The premiership would probably have...
There are some dubious democracies that are evolving toward more freedom; unlike being pregnant, it is possible to be a little bit democratic. Perhaps the textbook example of how a benign dictatorship can encourage democracy is Ayub Khan, who remains a military strongman but in seven years has moved Pakistan to the point where he himself ran scared for President in this year's election-and against a 71-year-old woman at that. Similarly, Thailand, now under semiautocratic rule, is preparing a constitution. The Shah of Iran has mobilized the intellectual resources of his nation for economic, social...
...whore!" As police held back the crowd of 3,000, the armored van carrying Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 50, from his jail cell pulled up in front of Caracas' Supreme Court building. It had been more than seven years since the pudgy strongman was overthrown, and last week, after well-heeled exile in the U.S. and 19 not-too-austere months in Venezuelan prisons, Pérez Jiménez was finally being brought to trial...
...headlong and disastrous plunge into socialism, Syria's Strongman Amin Hafez has resorted increasingly to that reliable diversion, the alleged U.S.-backed plot. Over the past month, 13 Syrians have been condemned to die on charges of collusion with the U.S. Last week Hafez presented another thriller that might not have impressed The Man from U.N.C.L.E. but went over big in Syria...
...Cabinet, Demirel, 41, a Western-minded economist, is Deputy Premier, and his resurgent party holds ten of 22 Cabinet posts. As the political heir of the late irresponsible but popular Strongman Adnan Menderes, the Justice Party is still distrusted by the real power in Turkey, the army. Demirel wants to show that he can regain the army's confidence and that the army-backed Inönü is not indispensable...