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Dire political predictions are standard fare in the Philippines, which has experienced more than 10 coup attempts and two popular uprisings in the last two decades. But last week, rumblings that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo might be overthrown by a coup or even another People Power revolt reached alarming levels. In a public statement, three Roman Catholic bishops warned the President early last week that "time is running out" and said that if there isn't an immediate revamp of the country's government, "no force on earth can ever stop the coming deluge of change." These exhortations for change...
...appointed Obote's former Vice President and Minister of Defense, Paulo Muwanga, 60, as Prime Minister. This has caused alarm and suspicion among many Ugandans. Opposition parties charge that Muwanga organized fraudulent elections that put Obote in power in 1980, after the bloody dictator Idi Amin Dada was overthrown...
After the downfall and death of his father, who was overthrown by Zia in 1977 and subsequently executed, Shahnawaz, the youngest of the four Bhutto children, joined his brother Murtaza in organizing a group called Al-Zulfikar, which was dedicated to overthrowing the Zia regime. It was based in Afghanistan and rumored to have ties to Libya and Syria. Last year the two brothers were convicted in absentia for involvement in the 1981 hijacking of a Pakistan International Airlines jet, during which a Pakistani diplomat was killed. Over the past 18 months, Shahnawaz was said to have given...
...freed American slaves. Diplomats in Monrovia reported that rebels had attacked the Executive Mansion at dawn Tuesday, using artillery and heavy machine guns in a full-scale battle with government troops. Soon after the fighting began, former Army Commander General Thomas Quiwonkpa announced on the radio that he had overthrown President Samuel K. Doe, 33, whom he accused of corruption and brutality. That evening, however, Doe assured his countrymen that the coup attempt had failed, although Quiwonkpa was still at large...
Indeed, Uganda's bloody history of tribal vendettas did not seem likely to end soon. In Saudi Arabia, the exiled Idi Amin, who had ousted Obote in 1971 before being overthrown himself in 1979, applauded the coup but warned that "if the new leaders refuse my advice, we would work to topple them." Asked if he would return to Uganda, Amin merely answered, "Everybody wants to go home...