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...liberty for millions of black Africans. The rallying cry "One man, one vote" has been transformed into reality, but it has suffered an ironic distortion. Many Africans now have one vote, but often it can be cast for only one man. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda was the sole candidate in his nation's presidential elections last October, when he was elected to a fifth four-year term. In Kenya, long a showplace of African democracy, President Daniel Arap Moi faced no challenger in elections last September...
Still, widespread opportunities for fraud have raised doubts that such measures will have much beneficial effect. Notes the London-based weekly magazine West Africa: "It, is open season for any racketeer with the capital and contacts to acquire sole control of some consumer product." A cartoon in another publication depicts a soldier talking to a village woman. "There is no food," he explains, "because we have shot the black marketeers...
After the May 1982 death of C. Lansing Hayes Jr., a longtime family adviser, Getty suddenly found himself sole trustee of the Sarah C. Getty Trust, named for his grandmother, a fund that controls 40% of the oil company. When he began looking at the firm more closely, he concluded that its performance was poor and its stock undervalued. The company's market price at the start of 1983 was just $48.50 a share. Getty questioned the company's diversification ventures, including those into insurance and cable television...
Dean LeBaron, 49. President and sole owner of Batterymarch, LeBaron is a notorious contrarian, who loves unloved stocks. He buys securities when they are cheap, hoping that they will stage big comebacks. In early 1982 his firm invested $500 million in 250 companies threatened by bankruptcy because, he said, "those that did not go broke would more than make up for those that did." He was right: during the economic recovery and bull market, the $500 million has grown by 93% to almost $1 billion...
Mayor of West Berlin and sole candidate for election as President of West Germany