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...rumbling of a 41-gun salute and glowering dark clouds in the London skies, Liberia's President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 66, was greeted by Queen Elizabeth II-marking 114 years of Anglo-Liberian friendship. As they boarded an open landau for the 40-minute trot to Buckingham Palace along with squads of Household Cavalry, the rains came. The Queen balanced a royal bumbershoot, but President Tubman had only his black topper to ward off the downpour as he waved to the smattering of onlookers along their route. At the palace, the Queen gave a very wet Tubman...
Married. William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman Jr., 28, Harvard-bred son of Liberia's President; and Wokie Rosalind Tolbert, 23, pretty, English-educated daughter of Liberian Vice President William Tolbert; at Bensonville, Liberia, in a ceremony performed by (among other clergymen) the father of the bride, who doubles as pastor of the local Zion Praise Baptist Church...
There was scarcely a campaign poster to be seen or an election speech to be heard, and the one opponent to Liberia's President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 63, had his own typically Liberian reason for bothering to run at all. "Not being particularly opposed to the continuation in office, of President Tubman," a church organist had said in his formal platform, "this venture of mine is divinely inspired. It is purely sportsmanlike, and is in response to the ardent desire of Dr. Tubman for fair and friendly competition...
...upon the Kingdom of Iraq, carved just 35 years ago out of the Ottoman Empire's holdings in the valley of the Tigris and the Euphrates-the land once known as Mesopotamia. The oil that calked the walls of Babylon and may have fired the furnace through which Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walked unscathed now bubbles through huge pipelines to the Mediterranean. Its flow is so fabulous that it makes Iraq (pop. 5,000,000) the world's sixth petroleum-producing country...
Liberia's diplomatic set had gathered at the Executive Mansion to celebrate President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman's election to a third term. They were all watching a home movie about "Uncle Shad" when Dunbar rushed into the darkened hall, leaped to the stage and fired his .38-caliber six-shooter at President Tubman. His first shot missed, and hit a Liberian Congressman in the leg. The second and third shots rang out as two police inspectors rushed the gunman; both were wounded. By this time the assembled dignitaries were scurrying out of the hall. Women in evening...