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Benazir Bhutto was one of the best political stories of the 1980s. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, she rallied from imprisonment and exile to return to Pakistan in 1986 and confront General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the country's military ruler and the man who executed her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. When Zia's death in a mysterious plane crash in 1988 opened the way for Pakistan's first regular elections in a decade, Bhutto, only 35 and the mother of a two-month-old son, led her father's Pakistan People's Party through a raucous campaign...
...that striving turns out to have been the easy part. The Prime Minister, whose dramatic past and striking presence beguile Western admirers, is getting few favorable reviews in Pakistan. Her government has passed no legislation except a budget during its 14 months in power. Much of its energy has been squandered feuding with the opposition. Worse yet, her Cabinet stinks with corruption scandals, including allegations that her husband Asif Ali Zardari and father-in-law Hakim Ali Zardari, chairman of the parliamentary public- accounts committee, have taken advantage of their position to collect kickbacks on government contracts. Says Maleeha Lodi...
...Party provincial government and leveling wild charges against Bhutto. Example: by emphasizing better relations with New Delhi, she was "selling out" to India. Opposition politicians have not been above a catty whispering campaign, asking how a mother with her second child due any day can possibly be a suitable Prime Minister. Nawaz Sharif has done more than talk. He used his police to arrest and lodge questionable cases against People's Party politicians in Punjab. Bhutto's government countered by using tax audits, cutting off state financing and exercising other federal powers to paralyze the industrial empire of Nawaz Sharif...
...Bulgarian turmoil is a classic of ethnic politics. Zhivkov tried to solve the minority problem by denying the Turks a separate existence and forcing them to assimilate or flee to Turkey. His successor, Petar Mladenov, reversed that policy. Prime Minister Georgi Atanasov told angry demonstrators, "If we Bulgarians want to be free, then all the people must be free." Last week the National Assembly approved measures that guarantee rights for the Turks, and set up a commission to review the issue...
...Security Council agreed in Paris last week that the United Nations should help administer and police war-weary Cambodia until a new government is elected. But it remains to be seen to what extent the contending factions -- especially the Khmer Rouge, the most powerful of three resistance groups fighting Prime Minister Hun Sen's regime -- will accept U.N. intervention...