European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                App Homi Puk Staa a  us Haq and the country top Opp Oarton Muter by Nazelr Bhutto. Pakistan Zia confident in control opposition in disarray by Barry Renfrew associated presso be year after he lifted martial Law president Mohammad Ziaul Haq appears firmly in control of Pakistan. Zia who seized Power in a 1977 military coup lifted martial Law site Xvi years on dec. 30.1985. In doing so he warned that he would not debate Phi tical chaos in his country. One year later the general appears More in control than Ever Wilh his opponents in disarray after a major confrontation with Zia. Binazir Bhutto the country s top opposition Leader and Zia s bitterest opponent has abandoned a deadline she set for the president s removal. Bhutto who had been confidently drawing up plans during the summer for running the government now admits the opposition will have to Wail longer than expected to Leke Power. Unfortunately we were preempted and therefore the Lime schedule Lor taking Power has to be readjusted she said in a recent interview. This does not mean one should lose  the nation of some 100 million people has spent More than Hall of ils history under military Rule since it was created in 1947. The Basic Issue before the people is How to do away with the persistent interference of the armed forces in political affairs and How to make them realize that they should restrict themselves to their primary duty of defending the country said political Scie tial Minhaj Bama. Zia intends to remain in Power until at least 1990, and he continues to Combine the Post of president with his position As chief of staff of the armed forces Hia Power base. Zia says democracy has been restored with the creation of a civilian government under Hia appointee prime minister Mohammad Khan Junejo. Many pakistanis Aniwa that the country now enjoys a considerable degree of political Liberty and thai the press is unrestrained. We May be As free now As we have Ever been said a senior newspaper editor opposed to Zia who asked not to be named. But the country s main opposition parties grouped in the movement or the restoration of democracy contend that democracy has not been restored and the military continues to Rule Pakistan behind a civilian facade the mid continues to demand Zia s removal and immediate National elections. Page 14 the stars and stripes there were Many indications in the summer that the opposition was gathering the strength to reach that goal. In april Bhutto was greeted by the largest crowd in Pakistan s history More than a million people when she returned from self imposed exile and hundreds of thousands of people flocked to see her As she toured the country in Triumph. Bhutto compared by some to Corazon Aquino of the Philippines predicted that Zia would soon be forced to tee. The 33-year-old opposition Leader told Zia to step Dawn by september or face the consequences. But Zia and Junejo moved first rounding up hundreds of opposition leaders in August after the prime minister said the opposition had ignored his plea to be reasonable. The crackdown brought the opposition into the streets. But it quickly became apparent that few people were willing to risk death to remove Zia and the protests fizzled out alter about two weeks Wilh some 30 people deed. Bhutto and her chief supporters had calculated that the armed services would abandon Zia if a showdown in the streets led to soldiers being ordered to fire on the people. The army removed two other military strongmen in the past rather than fire on protesters. Bui this calculation went awry As it became apparent that Zia had the Strong support of the military and Many pakistanis did not want upheaval. The mid also was hobbled by serious differences within ils own ranks with most parties mistrustful of Bhutto s dominant Pakistan Peoples party. Many pakistanis also retained unhappy memories of Bhutto s lather. The late prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who ruled Pakistan Wilh an increasingly along hand thai crushed democracy and opposition until he was ousted by Zia and the military. He was hanged in 1979 on murder charges. But Law observers Are writing off the opposition and the mid is determined la Challenge Zia again the government is Adamant that it will not agree to elections before scheduled 1990 polls. Bhutto says the opposition must work to build a Strong political organization capable of taking on the government and it must work to unite the people against Zia. The opposition also must try to heal a own divisions she said. But she no longer talks of giving the. Government deadlines. We have to create the right atmosphere again and we will create it again but i Don t think we should give deadlines As  she said. Kim la Sui North koreans idolize their great leader1 by James Miles United press International dozen 3-year-old children sit round a Model of president Kim la Sung s Birthplace in the 15th september kindergarten in Pyongyang. The North korean capital. One by one the teacher instructs them to stand and recite an episode from the benevolent fathers childhood reverently raising their hands to a picture of the great Leader As a boy in every classroom in every dormitory the Laving paternal Eye of the respected and beloved general stares Down on the infants from identical portraits. At Home on the streets and pinned to the chests of most adult citizens the president s image reminds North koreans of the Genius of Mankind the Sun of the nation the 74-year-old object at one of the world s most lavish personality Cults. From kindergarten to University the country s 21 million citizens Are taught to adore the Man who has ruled their communist nation since it was founded in1946, i Don t think he will die he must be alive forever said 14-year-old schoolgirl to Yong  gives us gifts every year costumes and pencils North koreans describe most state handouts and Public works As presents from the Brilliant and infinitely resourceful  foreign residents said Many people cry when they catch a glimpse of Kim. For whom a special Lane marked with yellow lines is reserved in the Center of Pyongyang a boulevards. The happiness that i would feel on meeting him i cannot express to said i often dream of  one Diplomat said North korean television recently showed voters entering a polling both bowing before the president s portrait casting their ballots and bowing again before leaving. At Manyong Dae on the capital s outskirts 1.85 million people paid homage at the spiritual Birthplace of Kim last year and thousands of others journeyed to mount a Kedu the sacred revolutionary Mountain near the Northern Border where Kim s 44-year-old son Kim Jongil was born. It sounds frightening at times the Way they carry on about him said one Pyongyang based Diplomat. Analysts said there Are no signs thai North Korea is ready to abandon the worship of ils leaders despite the rejection of personality culls by its neighbouring communist allies China and the soviet Union where map tse Tung and Joseph Stalin were once similarly projected As demigods. Indeed Kim Jongil who was appointed his lather s political heir in 1980 in what would be the communist world s first dynastic Transfer of Power appears to have devoted much of his energies to perpetuating the Kim family cull. To Mark lha president s Toth birthday in 1962 the younger Kim ordered the construction of a 565-foot Granite lower lopped by an electronic flame i Central Pyongyang to commemorate the president s Jumche idea the nation s guiding philosophy of self Reliance. Official biographies relate How the younger Kim once stopped i car to examine a Sogah read Long Lite and Good Hearth to the grit to afar to massive characters spaced Over hundreds of Yards along the Bank of Pyongyang main Tao Dong Row. � he sctt officials that the Tetter to hound Fae str pal