BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In the lobbies of Baghdad’s luxury hotels, portraits of President Saddam Hussein, attired in a Western suit, beam serenely on clusters of foreign businessmen.
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan -- A year ago, when Benazir Bhutto arrived in Washington as a struggling and relatively obscure leader of her country’s political opposition, her Pakistani driver joked with her about her life’s dream of overthrowing the military regime of Pakistani President Zia ul-Haq.
CAIRO -- Army officers staged a bloodless coup in Sudan on Friday, toppling the civilian government of Prime Minister Sadek Mahdi and imposing martial law in what had been one of Africa’s few democracies.
East Bloc: Communist Party leader Jakes and the rest of the Politburo quit after a week of demonstrations. A new leader is named. And Alexander Dubcek, the ‘Prague Spring’ reformer, makes a triumphant return.
Nadia Comaneci, the Romanian athlete who in 1976 earned the world’s first perfect scores in Olympic gymnastics, has fled her native country, the Hungarian government announced.
