Word: tanzania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extremis, Bech becomes a wandering minstrel for the U.S. State Department. He junkets to Venezuela, Korea, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, shamefacedly giving a speech...
...most of the less-developed countries, the global downturn has been devastating. In Costa Rica, where unemployment has risen to 17%, the government is stepping up a program to hand out bread, rice, beans and other food to the jobless. In Tanzania, where inflation is running at 29%, the government has dropped 966 projects from its budget, including the construction of several schools and the country's new capital at Dodoma...
What complicates the government's antiguerrilla efforts is the fact that most of ANC's fighting strength, an estimated 6,000 men equipped mostly with Soviet or Communist bloc weapons, is outside South Africa in the "frontline" states of Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia. The South African military of 86,000 on active duty and 400,000 potential reserves is already kept busy fighting a brushfire border war against SWAPO guerrillas infiltrating into Namibia. More and more frequently of late, the South Africans are employing "hot pursuit" tactics: military incursions into neighboring black-ruled countries that bring...
...finals, the man to beat is Texas-El Paso's Suleiman Nyambui, a 28-year-old junior from Tanzania and the two-time defending NCAA mile and two-mile champion...
Obote was openly backed by Muwanga as well as by Uganda's watchful patron, President Julius Nyerere of neighboring Tanzania. The U.P.C. appeared to have captured at least 66 seats in the 126-seat Parliament, compared with 44 for the Catholic-oriented Democratic Party (D.P.) of Paul Ssemogerere, 48, a U.S.-educated, longtime Obote adversary. The outcome was immediately contested by the D.P., with accusations that Obote had been steamrolled to victory. In reply, the Ugandan Army unleashed a two-hour barrage of gunfire in Kampala to intimidate Ssemogerere's angry supporters...