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...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...
...foggy dawn of Nov. 17, 1968, the German-built freighter Scheersberg A (gross tonnage: 1,790 tons) chugged out of Antwerp harbor with a Liberian flag flying from its mast and 560 drums of "yellowcake"-a crude concentrate of uranium-packed beneath its decks. The ship never reached its declared destination of Genoa, Italy. Instead, after 15 days at sea it docked at the Turkish port of Iskenderun on Dec. 2, riding high in the water. Its strategic cargo-200 tons of uranium, worth $3.7 million, that could potentially be used for nuclear weapons-had vanished. The disappearance...