Word: transferals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Year's Day speech, Babangida pledged to sponsor a national debate on the transfer of power to a civilian government. Said he: "I wish to reaffirm that this administration does not intend to stay in power a day longer than is required to lay the necessary institutional framework to bring about a better and more stable Nigeria." The voluntary and orderly turnover of power to a civilian government would flout the norm in Africa, where coupmakers have all too often made similar pledges. Many observers, in fact, believe that Babangida's program will entrench military power for years to come...
...midst of the January 24 moratorium on classes, Williams addressed the problems of racial and social intolerances at a campus forum where the president was in attendance. Referring to a promise of improved racial atmosphere the president made to one Black student considering a transfer, Williams told McLaughlin "You failed...
MANILA, Philippines--Opposition candidate Corazon Aquino jumped narrowly ahead of President Ferdinand E. Marcos in the government's own vote tabulations today, and an aide said she was making plans to call on Marcos "to arrange an orderly transfer of power...
Before you can get up on stage and sing "Midnight Train" and Manhattan Transfer arrangements with the Opportunes you have to survive three call backs. The first requirement is a basic proficiency at sight-reading "My Country 'tis of Thee" along with singing sequences of five or six notes at "strange" intervals to test the ears, according to Director Wayne C. Johnson...
Privately, some U.S. officials see little hope of a peaceful transfer of power so long as Marcos is alive. Intelligence sources have long reported that the Philippine President suffers from a form of systemic lupus erythematosus, a disease in which human antibodies attack the body's tissue, especially in many cases the kidneys. According to the same sources, Marcos has undergone one, and perhaps two, kidney transplants. He is constantly medicated, and his face shows it, usually being either drawn or puffed up from the effects of drugs. When Marcos appears at campaign rallies, he is often carried...