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That is an ambitious program indeed for a country as difficult to govern as Nigeria. Despite an oil boom that has made it the world's seventh largest oil exporter, Nigeria's economy has lately been lagging. Unemployment is high, and the effort to cut the armed forces will throw some 100,000 former soldiers on the job market just when jobs are becoming harder to get. Dealing with that problem-and catching Murtala's murderers, who remained at large last week -may well be the biggest immediate challenges to the Obasanjo regime...
Harvard professors yesterday gave various views on the debate regarding guidelines the National Institute of Health (NIH) will use to govern potentially dangerous genetics research...
...host, Ethiopia felt it should remain neutral; Uganda also abstained from the voting because its leader, Field Marshal Idi Amin, is O.A.U. chairman. If South Africa were to withdraw its forces from Angola, most of Black Africa might favor an immediate cease-fire and the installation of a coalition government in Luanda, which would give a voice to each of the country's varied regional, tribal and political factions. No regime, for example, could govern effectively without the cooperation of the pro-UNITA Ovimbundu tribe in the south. Yet many African states have been unwilling to back the national...
Appearing in a debate on "The Robert MacNeil Report," Lange cited the communists' "demonstrated ability to govern" in the five regional governments they control and their professed belief in democracy as reasons for his stand...
...institutions need to be created, the report states, to prevent countries from nationalizing foreign investments (as many Third World states did unto American multinationals) and to govern other multinational corporations. They cite as a growing problem the "global scope of operations of multinational firms, exceeding the jurisdictions of any individual government...