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...Pakistan a democratic change of power may be in the making. Opposition Politician Benazir Bhutto, 32, returned from exile last month to confront the country's military ruler, President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. Nine years ago, Zia seized power from Benazir's father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and two years later allowed Bhutto to be executed following his conviction on charges of conspiracy to murder an opposition politician. Benazir quickly demonstrated that she possesses her father's courage and political flair, as well as his headstrong nature. Pakistanis rallied to her by the hundreds of thousands. The next move...
...bureaucratic elite that rules Pakistan. The political risk paid handsome dividends. Benazir Bhutto, 32, was greeted by hundreds of thousands of frenzied supporters, who enveloped her motorcade and staged a daylong demonstration that was the largest display in memory of discontent with the military government of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. "Zia is a dog," chanted the demonstrators again and again. "We love Benazir...
With such potential terrorist targets as Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Polish Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski and Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq on the guest list, the precautions are not excessive. The U.N. has been brushed by terrorism before. In 1964, as Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara was castigating the U.S. in the General Assembly chamber, an anti-Castro group fired a 3 1/2-in. bazooka round at the U.N. from the Queens side of the East River. (It fell 200 yds. short, rattling the windows and more than a few delegates.) The security chiefs' greatest fear...
...campaign showed that the Soviets are apparently determined to shut down the clandestine CIA arms pipeline from Pakistan that feeds the Afghan guerrillas. They also probably intended the assault as intimidation against the government of Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who has provided staging areas for guerrilla forces...
Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and Benazir Bhutto gave all appearances of having made a deal. Bhutto, the leader of the outlawed Pakistan People's Party, the most popular political movement in the country, was allowed to return to Pakistan from Britain last month for the burial of her brother Shahnawaz, who died under mysterious circumstances in the south of France last July. Her part of the deal was not to engage in antigovernment political activities during her visit. Last week, however, the bargain was called off and the charismatic Bhutto was placed under house arrest at the family...