well, I'm mexican and I'm a woman so I don't have first hand experience about the military card and I was kind of young when the malawi issue was at it's prime.
But as i grew up i noticed that it was a "don't ask do't tell policy" on how you got away with military service.
Later on they printed the publications right there in mexico so they created a publishing co. called "grupo ultramar de cv"
cv means "variable capital" which is term used for companies that make profit.
And I always was bothered by the fact that other religions were willing to have a sign outside of their properties saying "federal property" but be free to worship freely and WT did not want to do it just because then all their properties will become goverment assets.
Right after they become legally a religion they started with the KH construction using the same tactic used over here (give me the money, build it for free, put it on wt name, keep paying rent)