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Shagari has shown himself to be a politician willing to stoop to any means to bolster his career. A week after the expulsion order, the 32- story Nigerian External Communications building was destroyed in a fire. At least 30 people died in the blaze, which gutted the head-quarters of the nationally run telephone company, and which cut the country off from the outside world for several days. It was the third government building to burn in the past year-- all three of which housed ministries under investigation for multi-million-dollar government corruption. In each case, all potentially incriminating...
Recent attempts by Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other major universities to bolster public schools have ended two decades of frustrating, unproductive relations between higher education and the schools, experts have said...
...their first civilian President since 1971. The troubles in neighboring countries have given Chief of the Armed Forces Gustavo Alvarez Martinez an excuse to extend his authority. He has won changes in the constitution that broaden his power, and is using the threat of a Sandinista invasion to bolster his military forces and consolidate his power within the country...
...Jewish state must decide on its own what course to follow; if Israelis have had enough of Lebanon, the territories and Begin, they have the internal procedures to say so and act on their will. Far from weakening the current government, outside pressure in this case will only bolster it because Israelis tend to stand more strongly behind their leaders when they feel isolated...
After Dukakis finished his general remarks he fielded questions from the mayors Several of the municipal leaders expressed concern over the availability of state funds this year Dukakis responded that his revenue-sharing plan--giving 40 percent of all new state revenues to municipalities--should bolster the element of certainty for those drawing up local budgets...