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...worked as a tour guide in Alaska for three months and then a volunteer for the National Civilian Community Corp, a program started by President Clinton...
...even show up for a televised debate. Besides voting early and often, some Nigerians had reportedly been voting their pocketbooks, selling the franchise for $1.10, and neither candidate's party had much of a history or an ideology. Yet millions of Nigerians turned out to vote for a civilian government to end 15 years of military rule...
...Obasanjo is the only Nigerian military dictator ever to have relinquished power to an elected civilian government. That was back in 1979, although his elected successors were overthrown by General Ibrahim Babangida in 1983, and the military has governed ever since. Falae is a Yale-educated economist who served as Babangida's finance minister, although he campaigned against Obasanjo on the grounds of the general's links with the military. The deeper issue may be tribal: Falae and Obasanjo are both members of the Christian Yoruba tribe from the southwest, but Obasanjo has the backing of much of the north...
...presidential race between two southerners reflected a new consensus among the generals that rescuing the country from its dolorous economic and political condition demands transferring power to a civilian southerner. Although the current military leader, General Adulsalam Abubakar, pledged a return to democracy after taking power last June, a skeptical electorate may take some convincing - after all, the military simply annulled the results of the last presidential election in 1993. Turnout was below 20 percent in some regions during last weekend's legislative poll -- and even then there were allegations of irregularities. Although Saturday's turnout was far larger, restoring...
Higginbotham, who died on Dec. 14 at the age of 70, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1995 for his life's work championing civil rights...