ROANOKE TIMES
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DATE: Tuesday, November 5, 1996 TAG: 9611050082
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-6 EDITION: METRO
President of Pakistan ousts Bhutto
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The president dismissed the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto early today and named a former leader of Bhutto's party as interim prime minister, a presidential spokesman said.
President Farooq Leghari has been under increasing pressure to dismiss Bhutto, who has been accused of rampant corruption and mismanagement.
The presidential spokesman said the country's four provincial legislatures have been dismissed, and that Miraj Khalid had been appointed interim prime minister.
There were initial reports that Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, had been arrested. He has been at the center of corruption scandals.
It was not immediately clear where Bhutto was. The army, however, had sealed all the airports and had surrounded the Punjab provincial legislature.
- Associated Press
Milosevic, wife win parliamentary vote
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and his wife have won parliamentary elections.
However, preliminary results showed Monday that the united democratic opposition did dent Milosevic's hold on local posts, with the capital, Belgrade, expected to get its first non-Communist mayor since World War II.
With over half the ballots counted from Sunday's election for the Yugoslav parliament, the alliance uniting Milosevic's ruling Socialists with his wife Mirjana Markovic's neo-Communists had 48 percent of the vote.
Milosevic did not run himself, but he needed to retain his majority in the legislature to ensure he can hold on to power next year, when his second term as Serbian president expires.
The constitution bars him from a third term, but he can be elected Yugoslav president by the Federal Assembly. Once there, he can get the legislature to change the constitution to expand the powers of that now-symbolic post.
- Associated Press
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