Word: americo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town of scarcely 15,000 people sporting only four blocks of paved streets, no sewage system, no streetlighting, no radio nor telephones. Liberia's annual budget came to $750,000, and government departments were quartered in shabby, corrugated-metal reproductions of Southern U.S. ante-bellum mansions. An Americo-Liberian elite, descendants of the American slaves who declared Liberia independent in 1847,* was in power, ruling with little regard for the tribal people of the bush, whom they called aborigines. The economy was dominated by the Firestone company, whose rubber plantations stretched deep into the hinterlands. There was, in short...
...President credits his successes and 25 years of stability to two basic policies. One is an open-door policy in regard to foreign investment. The other is his Integration and Unification Program, an effort to erase divisions between Americo-Liberians and the tribal people and to stop intertribal warfare. To still tribal rivalries, Tubman traveled far and wide through the bush to attend palavers with local chiefs, even became grand master of the secret Poro societies, to which all of Liberia's 28 tribes belong. He has extended the vote to the tribal people and banned the term Americo...
Even as the new Premier was sworn in, Salazar, the victim of a massive stroke, clung to life. But the 79-year-old dictator had been in a coma for ten days, and his doctors had informed President Americo Deus Rodrigues Tomás that he would never recover sufficiently to resume office. Faced with a serious drift in government affairs and rumors that the military might step in, Tomás finally called on Caetano to form a government...
Portuguese President Americo Tomas shouted "Wolf! Wolf!" and blasted away at the beast in the bushes, only to discover that he had bagged one of General Francisco Franco's hunting dogs. Otherwise, the partridge shoot at the Spanish state hunting preserve near Ciudad Real went smoothly, if somewhat noisily, as Host Franco, looking tanned and robust, observed his 74th birthday. President Tomas apologized about the dog, but maybe someone should have apologized to the birds. The twelve guns in the party brought down 1,300 red partridges...
...prison in April, 1964, the PIDE promptly rearrested him and "interogated" him for four more days at their headquarters. He was then released but kept under constant watch to prevent him from leaving the country. But last July, during a state visit to Mozambique by the president of Portugal, Americo Thomas, Sigauke slipped out of Lourenco Marques and across the border into Swaziland where he was met by Frelimo agents. A few days later Sigauke and his friends daringly recrossed the border and stood smiling in a crowd of African peasants as Amerigo Thomas rode past. "Of course we could...