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...stick failed to save him this time. Doctors, lawyers, civil servants and merchant seamen refused to work. Journalists and television actors walked off their jobs. Shops remained shuttered, and curfew-defying protesters took to the streets. Said opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia: "The autocratic Ershad had to surrender to the people's will...
...Dhaka, the capital, and were sporadically dispersed by soldiers wielding batons and tear-gas canisters even as they fortified themselves with makeshift barricades. The government ordered the arrest of the two women who head the main opposition groups -- Sheik Hasina Wazed of the Awami League and Begum Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party -- but the two remained undaunted. As it happens, Hasina is the daughter of a slain former President, and Zia is the widow of another. Vowed Hasina: "Ershad's last days have arrived. We shall not leave the streets until the dictator is removed...
...with the late Indian Prime Minister the same aristocratic sense of destiny. No other politicians -- certainly no men -- were capable of leading their countries at the time of their ascendancy. Aquino and Chamorro united quarrelsome opposition groups. Only Bhutto had the charisma to overcome the puritanical appeal of Mohammed Zia ul-Haq's Islamic regime. But winning was the easy part. Ruling has proved problematic...
...moment, the alliance is savoring its defeat of Bhutto, who had seemed unstoppable since she returned from exile in 1986 to restore elected government and avenge her father's death at the hands of the late President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. Bhutto stormed the country as the savior of democracy and won enough seats in the 1988 race to form a government...
...Ishaq's action in the courts on the grounds that it was "illegal and unconstitutional" and based on "a pack of lies." She accused the army of forcing the decision on Ishaq, who has close ties to the military. Ishaq previously served as a Finance Minister under General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, Pakistan's military dictator for 11 years and the man who had Bhutto's father, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, hanged in 1979. "It is the army that is running the show," she charged at a press conference in Karachi. Bhutto also announced that her party would...