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...propaganda. At special communes for "babes" (new converts), the apprentice memorizes the requisite Bible passages by reading them aloud while simultaneously listening to them on tape. Bible texts also blare from loudspeakers all day long. Each new convert takes a biblical name, usually from the Old Testament (Caleb, Shadrach, Deborah), and drops his old name as a remnant of the past...
...full name was William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, but to 1.5 million Liberians he was simply "Old Daddy." As President for 27 years of the Ohio-size West African rubber republic, he was the oldest, established, permanent, doting, elected patriarch on the continent. Indeed, so popular was Old Daddy with his subjects that the only thing that could oust him from office was death. The ouster came last week, when the 75-year-old President succumbed to complications following a prostate-gland operation in a London hospital...
...mentor, but who can never hope to emulate Old Daddy's style. Tolbert's mandate will run until elections are held in January. Then he may have to compete with, among other rivals, a 38-year-old Harvard graduate with the potent name of William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman...
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...
Like the long-lasting tire rubber that comes out of his country, President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman of Liberia, 72, has proved to be mighty resilient. He first took office in 1944 and, in his inauguration speech in 1964, intimated that he hoped to bow out as President after his fifth term. But Tubman has become fond of inaugurations. Last May he again ran for reelection, this time without even the usual token opponent. As he begins his 25th year this week, Tubman has some claim to being called an elder statesman. Among the notables due in Monrovia...