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| | Bringing Down Father -- Page 1 -- TIME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | A benign, incorruptible, father figure, Abboud alone could have rallied his freedom-loving, free-and-easy country men to his own austere goals of discipline and diligence. |
 | | Despite repeated promises to restore civilian government, he could not bring himself to relax tight control of the press, prohibition of political activity, heavyhanded restriction of assembly, discussion and the press. |
 | | Paradoxically, it was Abboud's first experiment with democracy that led to his downfall. |
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