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...Dodan Barracks in Lagos, where he lives and works. Outside, two armored cars and two tanks evince the might of the Nigerian military. They are also reminders of the dangers that the country's youthful President, Major General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, faces as he goes about reshaping Nigeria's corrupt and debt-ridden society. The President recently granted a 50-minute interview to TIME Correspondent James Wilde. Throughout, he displayed a ready smile and a penchant for easy laughter. Excerpts...
...Babangida is reaching outside the military, trying to create new political forces to sustain him. As long as Nigerians feel that the screws are tightening on everybody, they will feel better about it." Babangida has been slow, however, to address one of the country's most pressing problems: official corruption. Last month former President Shagari, who had been kept under house arrest since 1984, was cleared of personal involvement in corrupt practices, despite reports that $1 million a day was skimmed from the public treasury during his administration. And a methodical purge of corrupt officials begun by Buhari has been...
...command of the Chicago Mafia was swept away in 1943, the dons of the five major Mafia families that dominate the East Coast are charged with operating a "ruling council" that controls a variety of illegal enterprises. The case, which Giuliani will try himself, uses the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act to prosecute an entire organization, not just its leaders, and to confiscate its proceeds. "Our approach," he declares, "is to wipe out the five families...
...high a percentage of his tenant farmers' harvest? The offender is ordered to reduce his take. If he refuses, he is executed. Is a village drunk harassing the peasant population? He is warned to reform, and if no improvement is noted he is shot. Is a local official corrupt? He too is killed. All the while, the guerrillas distribute food and help with the farming. For some, this image of the N.P.A. as a band of benign vigilantes takes hold. But for many others, it quickly tarnishes. Some villagers balk because the advance team has already pushed...
Still another Ugandan government seemed on the verge of falling last week. Only six months after a coup had toppled the corrupt and bloody regime of President Apollo Milton Obote, an estimated 3,000 rebels from a group that calls itself the National Resistance Army moved into the capital, Kampala, and quickly captured a major portion of the city. Some government troops retreated to the suburbs, but others stayed behind, fighting back with heavy mortar barrages. In the exchange of gunfire, both a hospital and a church were hit. At least 20 people were reported killed or wounded...