PAKISTAN: Inside Job
Pakistan's Governor General Ghulam Mohammed and his tight little regime of civil servants and soldiers have suspended the Constituent Assembly, and now rule by decrees. They like to call themselves a "controlled democracy." But they realize that plain old democracy has too good a sound to let their opponents steal it. Last week Ghulam made a canny gesture to win popular support. For his new Minister of Law, he appointed Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, 61, popular leader of the opposition United Front, "and a big man in Bengal, who will now, under "controlled democracy," be expected to get along inside the Cabinet with his late enemies of the Moslem League.
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