Word: liberians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a sleepless nine-hour flight to Liberia, followed by a frenetic twelve-hour day of state activities, she told a news conference: "Being First Lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world." The eager, enthusiastic Liberians helped prove her point. She was greeted by Tolbert in a red-carpet ceremony complete with the ruffles and flourishes and 19-gun salute usually reserved for a head of government. Dressed in red, white and blue, she kept solemn step with the military tattoo as she reviewed the Liberian honor guard. Following the ceremony, she rode at Tolbert's side...
...million tons is anticipated this year-comes not only from Iran but from Saudi Arabia and some other Arab states on the Persian Gulf as well. Arab oil is not carried by Israeli-flag ships, of course, but by vessels that are registered in third countries, like the Liberian-flag Coral Sea. Sailing orders are often doctored so that there is no record of some ships' ever carrying oil to Eilat at all. Arab leaders have tried not to think about the matter for practical reasons: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait help support Egypt and Jordan with annual subsidies...
...typical of the DAS' work is the Liberian episode? If any answer can be extracted from two of its longest-standing projects-Pakistan and Indonesia-it is that despite what may have once been worthwhile motives and intentions, the DAS teams in those countries wound up as apologists for governments in which they had little significant influence for the good...