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...diplomats speculated that Amin may have concocted the medical crisis to keep public attention away from some grim news that added to his reputation as black Africa's most bloody-minded dictator. Shortly before the operation, Amin announced that he had rejected an appeal by Liberian President William Tolbert to spare the lives of twelve Ugandans who were to be executed later in the week for plotting to overthrow Big Daddy's regime. The public executions of the twelve, along with three others, took place on schedule. In Nairobi, eight Kenyans who had spent four months in Ugandan...
...charge now is James R. Tolbert III, a strapping (6 ft.) former football player who lights his pipe with a chrome-plate cigarette lighter engraved "June 26, 1972"-the day Four Seasons emerged from bankruptcy after two years of ax wielding. Tolbert fired many employees, slashing the ranks at the Oklahoma headquarters from 500 to 26. Unprofitable nursing centers were closed and sold off, and acquisitions were made in new fields: aluminum and packaging. During its most recent fiscal year the company earned $2.8 million on sales of $75 million. The Four Seasons name lives on, as a subsidiary...
Implementing his policy of detente with Black Africa, Vorster flew secretly to the Ivory Coast in 1974 to meet with President Felix Houphouet-Boigny and Senegal's visiting President, Leopold Senghor. Later he made a covert plane trip to Liberia for talks with President William Tolbert. Last year he met publicly with Zambia's President Kaunda at Victoria Falls on the Rhodesia-Zambia border in what proved to be an unsuccessful effort to achieve a Rhodesian settlement...
...foreign policy, Tolbert has gone a long way toward shedding Liberia's reputation as a docile U.S. colony. While staying on good terms with the U.S., he has established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. He has wheedled a better deal out of foreign concessionaires who export Liberia's iron ore and rubber, increasing the revenues to his treasury by some $5,000,000 a year. He is hoping to attract another $700 million from U.S. and Japanese sources for a huge new iron-ore project at Wologisi (estimated reserves: up to a billion tons...
...weeks ago, Tolbert suddenly announced that he had uncovered a plot against his regime−a rarity in Liberia, which has not had a successful coup since 1870. Three military men were arrested, but the armed forces chief of staff publicly denounced the plotters' "dastardly deed" and announced a $50,550 contribution by his officers and men to the President's cherished development fund. For the most part, Liberians seem to be delighted with Tolbert's informal manner, and they have even taken to calling him "Speedy." Tubman would have been appalled, but Tolbert does not seem...