Word: liberian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welter of recriminations, sadly enough, a crucial OAU report warning of "impending disaster" for Africa's deteriorating economies was given short shrift. The perfunctory debate over the study, which recommended the creation of a Common Market for the continent, tended to justify a sad remark by Liberian President William Tolbert. Most issues, concluded the OAU host and conference chairman, had been "decisively unaddressed...
...Padmor, an official in the Liberian Embassy to the United Nations, said his country was eager to attract international business, particularly companies interested in exporting Liberian products...
...powers and purposes of both parties are becoming thoroughly circumscribed. It would be lamentable if some day the nation's two great political parties were reduced to performing merely decorative and ceremonial duties, with candidates taking the party label in the same spirit that ships sail under Liberian registry-a flag of convenience, and no more. - Lance Morrow
Western diplomats speculated that Amin may have concocted the medical crisis to keep public attention away from some grim news that added to his reputation as black Africa's most bloody-minded dictator. Shortly before the operation, Amin announced that he had rejected an appeal by Liberian President William Tolbert to spare the lives of twelve Ugandans who were to be executed later in the week for plotting to overthrow Big Daddy's regime. The public executions of the twelve, along with three others, took place on schedule. In Nairobi, eight Kenyans who had spent four months...
...Office of Management and Budget-are against the bill. They fear it would aggravate inflation by forcing the use of more expensive U.S. ships with highly paid crews: it costs $14,300 a day to run a 90,000-ton U.S. ship, v. $9,700 for the same size Liberian-flag freighter. Further, critics say the bill is protectionist special-interest legislation, antagonistic to free trade and potentially disruptive to U.S. treaty relations with perhaps 30 other nations. But Carter is for the bill. Wooing labor support during the campaign, he said he would work to "enact and develop...