Word: tsirinana
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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VOILÀ," said Philibert Tsirinana, the only president Madagascar has had since it won independence from France and became the Malagasy Republic in 1958. "So you are going to drive to Tamatave? Voila. You will find the road is bad. I will tell you why. First, because we do not have money to do all things at once. Second, because if we improved the road, people would use it and the profits of our railroad would be reduced. Third, because the sooner we improved it, the sooner it would be torn up and the sooner we would have to improve...
Itching for Action. Last August, Tsirinana's doctors ordered him to take a complete rest, and by the end of the prescribed three-month period he was so bored that he was itching to do something. What he did was fire his entire twelve-man Cabinet last month, then reappoint all but one Minister in the next three weeks. It was seemingly designed solely to prove who was boss...
Some proof was needed, since Tsirinana (pronounced Tsi-ran) is not in the best of health. A peasant boy who herded zebus until the French sent him off to a Jesuit school, he is now nearing 60. His gait is slow and his words sound mechanical. Moreover, the island's recent municipal elections-the first nationwide balloting in five years -indicate that discontent is on the rise...
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