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...control in the islands. Early in the week army officers freed deposed Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra and the 27 members of his government. The release was part of a careful plan negotiated between Rabuka and Fiji's Governor-General, Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, who is an independent Commonwealth official representing Queen Elizabeth II. Ganilau had stood firm against the coup, declaring a state of emergency and ordering the troops to return to their barracks. When they refused, he began negotiations with Rabuka, who had appointed himself chairman of the Council of Ministers. But when Chief Justice Sir Timoci Tuivaga condemned...
...protest groups, the U.S. Congress in 1986 banned new corporate investment in South Africa and stopped the import of South African steel, iron, coal, uranium and textiles, as well as the export of computers and petroleum to that country. Similar punishments have been imposed by the European Community, the Commonwealth and Japan...
...paramilitary organization called the Torch Commando (with Oppenheimer financing) to oppose the Afrikaners. There was even talk of secession in the pre-eminently English-speaking province of Natal in 1953 and again in 1960-61, when the Nationalists declared South Africa a republic and led it out of the Commonwealth. But eventually the English minority fell back on the comfortable tradition of live and let live and returned to making money. That minority still pays 60% of all personal taxes in South Africa and 75% of all corporate taxes...
Nickelodeon, 606 Commonwealth...
...have a lot of guys back, and they know the game really well," Co-Captain Scott Roberts said. "We finished third in the Commonwealth Cup, and had a close one-point loss to the English side (Trinity 4-3), so all signs point to a pretty strong showing this spring...