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They laughed when William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman was inaugurated as the 18th President of Liberia back in 1944. He had a reputation as a playboy, and it was freely predicted that within six months he would be impeached or simply resign from office. But "Uncle Shad" has endured. Now in his sixth term, he has been busy the last two weeks celebrating his 25th anniversary as chief executive of Africa's oldest republic. TIME Correspondent James Wilde went to the party, a ten-day long binge of dinners, dances, agricultural exhibitions, parades and fireworks. His report...
Miss Angie E. Brooks, assistant secretary of state of Liberia and president of the Trusteeship Council of the U.N., will speak on "Africa and the World" at 8 p.m. tonight in the George Sherman Union, Boston University...
Real Threat. The Soviet push is backed up by a fast-growing merchant fleet. A virtual nonentity 15 years ago, the Red fleet now numbers 1,350 oceangoing ships totaling 10 million tons, ranks sixth in the world, after Liberia (actually a "flag of convenience" for ships of many nations), Britain, the U.S., Norway and Japan. At its current million-ton-a-year growth rate, the U.S.S.R. could well be at the top by the early 1970s...
...created in 1962 to provide economic advice to under-developed countries which request it. It currently has advisory teams in Liberia and Ghana. In previous years, the staff for these two units was selected from throughout the United States and western Europe and few staff members returned to Harvard after their work in Africa...
...junta, including not only sergeants but privates and police patrolmen as well, summoned home Colonel John Bangura, a counselor in Sierra Leone's Washington embassy, to head an interim ruling council. As second in command, the junta brought home Lieut. Colonel Patrick Genda, the ambassador to Liberia. As they arrived in Freetown, both men were greeted by happy crowds clutching signs that read "Welcome to Freedom" and "Welcome, Our Saviors...