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...Punch, a newspaper that is more noted for its third-page cheesecake than its investigative prowess, reported that approximately $5 billion was missing from the accounts of the government-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. In response to the charges, the newly installed Shagari government last spring appointed a five-man tribunal to investigate. The group's report, which was released two weeks ago, noted that the government's oil records were a shambles, but that there was no evidence of any missing funds...
Freedom of the press and political pluralism appear to have been respected to some extent; there are six opposition parties, for example, and a moderate representative of the private sector sits on the ruling five-man junta...
...toppled El Salvador's own dictator, General Carlos Humberto Romero. In a desperate attempt to pre-empt a San-dinista-style revolution-with Washington's encouragement-a group of moderate military officers seized power. Then, in an effort to satisfy peasant expectations and calm labor unrest, the five-man military-civilian junta made its own attempt at reform. It expropriated some large estates and nationalized the core of the country's banking system...
This search seemed headed for yet another climax last weekend as a special five-man United Nations commission arrived in Tehran to hear the grievances of Iran's new rulers against the regime of the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Arranging this mission took more than a week of feverish diplomatic activity, as officials at times worked round the clock. Their efforts were punctuated with starts and stops, expected deals that failed to materialize, and hints of progress that suddenly dissolved...
...Wednesday, the five-man U.N. commission had already gathered in Geneva and was ready to leave for Tehran. All the commission needed was the go-ahead signal from U.N. headquarters in Manhattan. It never came. After waiting several hours in the VIP lounge, the U.N. envoys and their entourage glumly headed back to the city...