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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other clubs, the Spee and the Fox, haveboth had general meetings to discuss similarchanges in the last month. Neither has yetannounced a policy change...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Clubs Limit Guests to Curb Risks | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Attendees with more experience, such as Carpenter, a member of the coalition's board and a financial analyst for General Electric, who is also the political and legislative director of the Democrats of America, said he attended the convention because it was about the future...

Author: By Harrel E. Conner, | Title: Coalition for a Democratic Future Elects Three Harvard Undergrads | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...Attendees with more experience, such as Carpenter, a member of the coalition's board and a financial analyst for General Electric, who is also the political and legislative director of the Democrats of America, said he attended the convention because it was about the future...

Author: By Harrel E. Conner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Coalition for Democratic Future Elects Three Undergraduates | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...Obasanjo is the only Nigerian military dictator ever to have relinquished power to an elected civilian government. That was back in 1979, although his elected successors were overthrown by General Ibrahim Babangida in 1983, and the military has governed ever since. Falae is a Yale-educated economist who served as Babangida's finance minister, although he campaigned against Obasanjo on the grounds of the general's links with the military. The deeper issue may be tribal: Falae and Obasanjo are both members of the Christian Yoruba tribe from the southwest, but Obasanjo has the backing of much of the north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria Faces a Democracy Test | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...presidential race between two southerners reflected a new consensus among the generals that rescuing the country from its dolorous economic and political condition demands transferring power to a civilian southerner. Although the current military leader, General Adulsalam Abubakar, pledged a return to democracy after taking power last June, a skeptical electorate may take some convincing - after all, the military simply annulled the results of the last presidential election in 1993. Turnout was below 20 percent in some regions during last weekend's legislative poll -- and even then there were allegations of irregularities. Although Saturday's turnout was far larger, restoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria Faces a Democracy Test | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

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