Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Obasanjo, a devout Baptist who became the military regime's leader in 1976, has had only mixed success in persuading Nigerians to curb their big spending. The need is urgent because the country's appetite for grandiose public projects, as well as for needed social welfare programs, far outstrips its oil reserves. But Obasanjo has had no trouble at all in selling his people on a return to democracy; Nigerians, as one Lagos official says bluntly, are "tired of dictatorship...
...spellbinder with crowds, Shagari, a chain-smoking, onetime science teacher, edged his two main rivals, who hinted after the election that they might challenge the results. The two were Yoruba Chieftain Obafemi Awolowo, a major architect of Nigeria's independence, and Nnamdi Azikiwe, an Ibo leader who was the nonelected President during the brief parliamentary republic. In the campaign, Shagari emphasized his experience as a minister of finance, education and other departments in previous regimes. Though once a leader of an organization that advocated "national unity" under Hausa domination, he picked an Ibo running mate. Moreover, he managed...
...exact number - work in garment industry sweatshops. A timorous, often illiterate people, for the past two years they have been subjected to vicious beatings and murders by white gangs. Listening to the sound of prayer coming from the local mosque, Gulam Mustafa, a leather goods manufacturer and local Bengali leader, says he has appealed repeatedly to the Home Office to help halt the attacks. The Bengalis' cause was taken up last year by the Anti-Nazi League, a leftist group formed to combat the National Front, but Bengalis are wary of being caught in the crossfire between left...
...those polled, 17% knew nothing about Lenin, 31% knew nothing about Stalin and 42% knew nothing about Khrushchev. According to one confused youth leader, Stalin was "commander in chief of the Germans and was finally shot in the head." Two thought Khrushchev was "the President of the United States in the early '60s," while a third identified the desk-pounding former Premier as "the first man to go into space...
...female sortie is only one tactic in a new feminist cause: an all-out war against pornography. The rationale is that pornography is a significant factor in the nation's disturbing rate of sexual violence against women and children. One of the movement's organizers and a leader of the weekly Manhattan tours is Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will, which contends that rape is a social and political instrument to oppress women. Adds Psychologist Phyllis Chesler: "For years women have been reluctant to speak out against pornography for fear of being called prudes or bluestockings...