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...Kenneth O. Dike, a former Harvard professor, died on October 26 is Jinugu, Nigeria. His death, at age 65, became known on November...
...civilian rule in 1979, few believed that the new government would be able to cope with the intense ethnic and tribal loyalties that had spawned the military takeovers of the past. Declared Shagari after his reelection: "It is a victory for all Nigerians; it is a victory for democracy." Nigeria, he said, would remain nonaligned but "very much" tied to the West...
Shagari's main concern now is the parlous state of the Nigerian economy. When he was elected to his first term, Nigeria was booming as a result of high oil prices and expanding production. As oil prices dropped in 1981 and OPEC tightened its production quotas, Nigerian oil revenues, which normally account for 90% of the country's export earnings, fell from $26 billion a year to $10 billion. The government is currently negotiating with the International Monetary Fund for a three-year loan that will help ease its balance of payments deficit...
...main problem with a stretch-out of Brazilian loans is that it would be followed by pleas from other debt-laden countries, including Mexico, Poland, Argentina, Chile and Nigeria, for similar concessions. Brazil's difficulties are only part of a much larger global pattern, and the major creditor and debtor nations have yet to come up with a coherent long-range plan to ease the debt burden that is crippling the world economy. So far, temporary IMF bailouts on a case-by-case basis have only kept the international financial system lurching from crisis to crisis...
...with Immigration and Naturalization Service officials to prevent exotic diseases from entering the country. Laboratory Director Joseph McCormick, who studied Lassa fever in Sierra Leone, sped to the Atlanta airport in a four-wheel-drive vehicle during a snowstorm last January to pick up a mysteriously ailing passenger from Nigeria. The man was placed in an isolation room until it was certain he was not suffering from one of the deadly viruses...