Word: gabon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some serve out of a sense of moral mission, much like that which inspired Dr. Albert Schweitzer to go to Africa in 1913 to open a hospital at the village of Lambarene in what is now Gabon. Others seek adventure, challenge, an opportunity to hone their skills in a real-life laboratory where nearly every case is an emergency. Many discover that much of what they learned in medical school is irrelevant to the life-and-death crises and health needs of the world's poor, and go on to make a career of volunteer medicine...
...Gabon's oil minister, Etienne Guy Tchioba, said the cartel leaders might have to rework a tentative accord, reached Saturday, to retain the $18-a-barrel oil price and renew OPEC's existing set of national oil production quotas...
...tribal rivalries and the constant threat of coups, have taken far greater pains to stay in power than to preserve democratic rights. Troublesome constitutions are usually ignored or tailored to suit. "If anyone speaks to you about a multiparty political system, catch him and hit him hard," declared Gabon President Albert-Bernard (Omar) Bongo in a widely quoted 1983 speech. At least 28 of the continent's 53 states have only one political party, and 27 African nations are under military rule. Countries ranging from Guinea in West Africa to Somalia in the east have gone...
Efforts by the U.S. and France to find Baby Doc a new home continued to be unavailing. The latest country to reject a feeler: tiny Monaco. When the west African nation of Gabon was sounded out, the response from President Omar Bongo was curt: "We are not a garbage can." Baby Doc would love to stay in France, but the French summarily reject the idea. Stung by his rough treatment, Duvalier declared, "If I had known the only country I feel close to wouldn't welcome me, I would never have given up power...
...repression and violence," his regime could not survive. After meeting with officials from nearby Jamaica, the President-for-Life agreed to depart on Wednesday but quickly had to renege. Reason: the Greek, Spanish and Swiss governments had all rebuffed the Duvalier family's requests for asylum. Two African countries, Gabon and Morocco, also said Duvalier would not be welcome...