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...deliverymen in Manhattan join a labor union and win $3 million in back pay. What's unusual is that the workers, predominantly from West Africa, are all undocumented. And, even more remarkable, these illegal immigrants, given lax immigration enforcement, have little reason to fear deportation. Indeed, one of them, Siaka Diakite, an Ivory Coast native, is now pictured in a widely distributed color brochure put out by the AFL-CIO. Says Charles Batchli, a plaintiff from the Congo: "It didn't matter who we were. We are human beings first. The question was, Were we taken advantage...
...spotlight of publicity turned briefly on Sierra Leone earlier this month, when the Organization of African Unity met in the tiny (pop. 4 million) West African state and installed its President, Siaka Stevens, as the O.A.U.'s chairman for the coming year. But when the big bash was over, Sierra Leone was left with more problems than ever: an authoritarian government, a languishing economy, all-pervasive corruption and $200 million in bills from the summit conference. As TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack E. White discovered during a visit to Sierra Leone, the country's plight is disturbingly similar...
...Siaka Massaquoi, a member of the Sierra Leone Students Association, said Pan-Africanism "is not a new or impossible idea." Massaquoi said unification occurred in the old African empires, adding that when they fell, colonialism began...
...political contact with Sierra Leone. For the next five years, he served in Geneva as assistant director general of the World Health Organization, but continued to watch the political situation in Sierra Leone. In 1970, with power in the hands of an old political ally, Dr. Siaka Stevens, he reasoned that the time was right for him to return to Sierra Leone for good. Karefa-Smart smiles at his own innocence now when he says," I thought I was getting to the age when you could retire...
...loathing of Black African nations for the white-supremacist enclave of Rhodesia has often been stated-but never quite so bitingly as it was last week when tiny Sierra Leone announced its first list of national awards and honors. A spokesman for President Siaka Stevens, recalling that the country's 19th century nickname was "the white man's grave" because of Sierra Leone's hordes of malaria-bearing mosquitos, said that among the honors would be a Medal of the Mosquito, for conspicuous gallantry. Why? Because the vicious little pests prevented white men from permanently settling...