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Both Tubman and Tolbert ruled through patronage, doling out jobs and favours in return for support.
ECONOMIST: Liberia
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By the way, Tolbert woke up to the sound of gunfire one morning in April 1980.
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"Such a move would indicate they believe the risk of contamination outside the plant was extensive, " Tolbert wrote.
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To emphasise the point, he had 13 of Tolbert's inner circle stripped, humiliated and shot by drunken firing squads.
ECONOMIST: Liberia
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Japan's nuclear accident last week seems to be worse than expected, reported Kathryn Tolbert of the Washington Post.
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In 1979, Tolbert caused a riot by announcing an increase in the price of rice, from which his family stood to benefit.
ECONOMIST: Liberia
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In June alone, Ms. Tolbert turned 270 Israeli minors -- they can't have turned 18 -- into U.S. citizens, thanks to their grandparents.
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So keen was Tolbert to impress his African colleagues that he built 52 European-style chalets along the beach, one for each African president and his entourage.
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It was, in fact, just that -- Hotel Africa -- built in 1979 when Liberia's president, William Tolbert, had his turn as chairman of the Organization of African Unity.
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The two presidents who ruled from 1944 until 1980, William Tubman and William Tolbert, tried to persuade their subjects that they should not be content with being peasants, but should strive to join the industrialised world.
ECONOMIST: Liberia