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...Harriet Tubman crouches behind a stand of trees that edge the slave quarters of a Maryland plantation, her song wafts across the dark night. "Who's that yonder dressed in red?/ I heard the angels singing./ Looks like the children that Moses led./ I heard the angels singing." The plaintive melody is a mythic signal, readily understood: she is the "Moses" who is leading her people out of bondage. Moments after Harriet's song has ended, the passengers join her on the Underground Railroad, moving North to freedom...
...Inauguration Day in 1971, however, Tolbert toured his capital in a Volkswagen instead of the Tubman Cadillac, and he showed up for the swearing-in ceremony in an open-neck, short-sleeved safari suit instead of the Tubman top hat. He also got rid of his predecessor's $2,000,000 yacht...
More important, Tolbert dismantled Tubman's four competing security services, purged the corrupt police department and encouraged the long-muzzled press to speak out. He shook up the somnolent civil service by showing up at the stroke of 8 a.m. to demand that government offices open on time...
...price of imported rice, its diet staple, has doubled in the past two years−but it has little money for development. A full third of the budget goes to service the national debt, and he has still not combed out all of the excesses of the Tubman...
...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 to mind. "If we can manage to speed things up in this country," he says, "I don't care what they call...