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...announced without explanation on April 15 by Nigeria's Minister of Internal Affairs, Major General Mohammed Magoro, who declared simply that "all illegal aliens are to leave before the tenth of May." About half the immigrants targeted for expulsion originally came from Ghana, the rest mainly from Burkina Faso, Niger, Liberia, Chad, Togo, Gambia and Benin. Many had entered Nigeria illegally in search of jobs; others had fled from drought and starvation...
...suffering from recurring drought that has caused widespread hardship and political instability. This month Upper Volta shed the name that the French bequeathed along with independence 24 years ago. President Thomas Sankara, 34, who seized power last year, decreed that his country would hence forth be known as Burkina Faso...
...change is but the latest of a series that has kept cartographers busy as independent African nations shed their colonial past. The new name was derived from two of the country's main languages. In More, spoken by some 3 million people, burkina means "ancestral home" faso means "those who are dignified" in Dioula. Sankara also redesigned the flag and commissioned a national anthem that can be performed with traditional instruments. "Our new name represents a psychological and spiritual change,"explains Minister of Environment and Tourism Basile Guisso. "It will help revolutionize the way people think and help them...
...much more earthly source. Godspell is more about show bizz than it is about Christ. All those allusions inevitably take their toll; the message is overwhelmed by the medium. John-Michael Tebelak, who conceived the show (as part of a Masters program at Carnegie Tech, no less), and Nina Faso, who directed this Boston production, have provided the show with enough stage business to make this the greatest story theater ever told. Only, in place of the respect and awe with which Paul Sills has treated the Brothers Grimm, Godspell is full of the good-natured self-mockery...
...University were announced yesterday. Major Harry Gage Wyer '96 has been elected Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the Medical School to serve while detailed here by the United States Government, beginning next September. Major Wyer, who is now attached to the William Beaumont Hospital at E1 Faso, Texas, will give courses on medicomilitary subjects for students who are candidates for the Medical Officers Reserve Corps in the military forces of the United States...