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| | President - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Under the French Third and the Fourth Republics, the "President of the Council" (of ministers) was the head of government, with the President of the Republic a largely symbolic figurehead. | | | In the United States, the President is indirectly elected by the U.S. Electoral College made up of electors chosen by voters in the presidential election. | | | The prime minister of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1937 was titled President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President
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| | Liberia |
| | President William Tolbert was inaugurated the 10th president of Liberia in 1972. | | | The fifth American president, James Monroe, once served as president of the ACS and so was Henry Clay, a one-time Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. | | | The official handover of power to his V.P. Moses Blah has been witnessed by South African President Thabo Mbeki, Ghanaian President John Kufuor, Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano and Togolese Prime Minister Koffi Sama. |
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http://us-africa.tripod.com/liberia.html
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| | Liberia: 19th Century Colonists |
| | When he was elected President of Liberia, May 1869, he was one of the wealthiest men in the country. | | | He was Vice-President of Liberia when President Anthony William Gardiner’s handling of a boundary dispute with the British was disapproved by a number of senators. | | | In 1841 Governor Thomas Buchanan, a cousin of the President of the USA, James Buchanan, died and was succeeded by J.J. Roberts. |
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http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/19thcColonist.htm
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| | Liberia: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition) |
| | Liberia's president lived in a handsome stone mansion that resembled a southern plantation house. | | | In this 1849 letter, President Joseph Jenkins Roberts of Liberia appeals to the government and people of the United States for aid in purchasing the territory of Gallinas, enabling Liberia to control the West-African coast from Sierra Leone to Cape Palmas. | | | In 1819, Congress passed an "Act in addition to the acts prohibiting the Slave Trade." This act authorized the president to send a naval squadron to African waters to apprehend illegal slave traders and appropriated $100,000 to resettle recaptured slaves in Africa. |
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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam003.html
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| | Global Connections . Liberia . U.S. Policy PBS |
| | Liberia viewed his visit as a symbol of the strong relationship between the United States and Liberia, and as a confirmation that the U.S. would be a source of support and aid to Liberia. | | | By the 1870s Liberia was forced to accept high-interest government loans from Europe and the United States. | | | At the height of the war, in 1943, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt stopped in Liberia on his North African tour to visit U.S. troops. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/liberia/essays/uspolicy
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| | In 1857, Maryland became a county of Liberia. | | | Blyden was Liberia's leading intellectual, a journalist, scholar, diplomat, statesman, and theologian. | | | This resulted, a year later, in the Constitution, Government, and Digest of the Laws of Liberia. |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/libhtml/liberia.html
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| | WNDU-TV: News Story: President of Liberia makes a surprise decision - July 06, 2003 |
| | This week, President Bush will focus on the positive by visiting four African countries with elected governments and a fifth, Uganda, which is reducing its AIDS infection rate. | | | The president will highlight his 5-year, $15-billion plan to combat AIDS in Africa which he spoke about on Friday. | | | The president will address the AIDS crisis and famine. |
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http://www.wndu.com/news/072003/news_20708.php?PRINT_VERSION=1
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| | Liberia |
| | William R. Tolbert, Jr., 19th President of Liberia, took office in 1971, upon the death of his predecessor, William V. Tubman. | | | The history of modern Liberia dates from 1816, when the American Colonization Society, a private United States organization, was given a charter by the United States to send freed slaves to the west coast of Africa. | | | The new government and the new constitution were inaugurated on January 6, 1986, with Samuel K. Doe as president. |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/countries/Liberia.html
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| | Liberia (09/05) |
| | As early as 1819, Congress appropriated $100,000 for the establishment of Liberia (and resettlement of freemen and freed slaves from North America) by the American Colonization Society, led by such statesmen as Francis Scott Key, George Washington’s nephew Bushrod, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and presidents Monroe, Adams, and Jackson. | | | The style of government and constitution was fashioned on that of the United States. | | | Doe's forces executed President William R. Tolbert and several officials of his government, mostly of Americo-Liberian descent. |
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/6618.htm
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| | Profile of The Next President of Liberia |
| | English being the official language of Liberia, the president must be able to speak and write it with confidence and proficiency right from the start. | | | Likewise, a legislature of competent lawmakers, left unmolested by the president, will not only make good laws for the country but will also serve the check-and-balance function demanded by the constitution, thereby prohibiting the president from becoming a dictator. | | | The new president must never jail or prosecute citizens, including religious leaders and journalists, for exercise of their constitutional right to speak freely. |
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http://www.theperspective.org/2005/jan/thenextpresident.html
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| | President's Remarks on Liberia |
| | THE PRESIDENT: The President of Ghana is the leader of ECOWAS. | | | The President of ECOWAS is with us today, the President of Ghana. | | | This site is managed by the Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State. |
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http://www.state.gov/p/af/rls/rm/22275.htm
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| | Online NewsHour: Liberia's Civil War -- Charles Taylor Biography |
| | In 1995, a peace agreement was signed, eventually leading to the election of Taylor as president in July of 1997. | | | In 1979, then-Liberian President William Tolbert visited the United States. | | | Taylor's ascent to power, and the election of fellow National Patriotic Party candidates to a majority of legislative seats in the National Assembly, marked what many hoped would be the end of seven years of civil strife. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/africa/liberia/taylor-bio.html
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| | Liberia |
| | The executive branch is headed by a president who is... | | | The government of Africa's first republic was modeled after that of the United States, and Joseph Jenkins Roberts of Virginia was elected the first president. | | | Black Christian republicanism: a Southern ideology in early Liberia, 1822 to 1847. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107718.html
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| | Published by Liberia Analyst Corporation |
| | Anxious voters and partisans are rejoicing silently as the NEC is said to be holding a Press briefing this morning at its offices. | | | It is becoming clear by the hour that Liberia’s electioneering politics this year is far from the cut-and-dried exercise it used to be. | | | Former United States President Jimmy Carter says the National Elections Commission needed to carry on a massive voter education in an event where the elections go for second round (run-off). |
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http://www.analystnewspaper.com
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| | Boston.com / News / World / Africa / Nigerian President Meets Liberia's Exiled Taylor |
| | Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has held talks with exiled former Liberian leader Charles Taylor amid concern that Taylor might be trying to influence events in his homeland, the Nigerian presidency said Sunday. | | | The president discussed how to ensure stability in Liberia, where he has been at the forefront of world efforts to secure peace," Oyo said. | | | LAGOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has held talks with exiled former Liberian leader Charles Taylor amid concern that Taylor might be trying to influence events in his homeland, the Nigerian presidency said Sunday. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2003/10/12/nigerian_president_meets_liberias_exiled_taylor
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| | Liberia - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum |
| | Liberia faces a 'make-or-break' situation as voters go to the polls for the first presidential and legislative elections since the 14-year civil war ended in 2003. | | | UN sanctions were imposed on Liberia because of the country’s involvement with rebels in Sierra Leone. | | | Under the reign of President Charles Taylor, Liberia became the epicenter of instability in West Africa. |
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http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/liberindex.htm
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| | The Perspective |
| | This unacceptable situation is starkly manifested in the Government of Liberia’s decision to avoid investigating the management of the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company (LPRC) for the probable misuse and abuse of public funds. | | | Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s Ascendancy To The Presidency Is An Inescapable Judgment Of History, SaysYEP Leader | | | Former Margibi County Senior Senator and a long time member of the Transitional Assemblies in successive interim governments during the 1990s, David Menyongai says that “a George Oppong Weah presidency would be risky for Liberia. |
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http://www.theperspective.org
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| | Liberia on the Internet |
| | Headquartered in Monrovia, Liberia with an office in Columbus, Ohio. | | | Find discussions on Liberia in the US Congress. | | | Flemister is Special Emissary to Chair Perry of the Council of State & Member of the 47th and 48th Legislatures, Republic of Liberia. |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/liberia.html
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| | Robertson Defends Liberia's President (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Taylor seized power in Liberia by force in 1989 and was elected president in a 1997 vote that some observers charged was fraudulent. | | | I do know he was elected by the people, and he has maintained a relatively stable government in Liberia; and they observe the rule of law; they have a working legislature; they have courts. | | | Charles Taylor, the Liberian president who has been indicted by an international court for crimes against humanity, has few remaining supporters in the United States. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35786-2003Jul9
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| | Time for Kids News |
| | Once a rebel fighter himself, Taylor had previously claimed himself as president although he wasn't officially elected. | | | Under Liberian law, Vice President Moses Blah will become president when Taylor officially resigns. | | | This week, he said he will resign only if U.S. troops enter Liberia and insure peace before he leaves. |
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http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,463357,00.html
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| | Liberia President Taylor's Life of Crime |
| | Charles Taylor was born in 1948 to a family of Americo-Liberians, the elite minority that grew out of the former American slaves who emigrated to Liberia in the early 1800s. | | | Like many Americo-Liberians, Taylor studied in the United States, though it's unclear if he ever graduated with an economics degree from Bentley College in Massachusetts, as has been reported. | | | According to George Kun, a Liberian refugee who is now a fellow at Refugees International in Washington, D.C., young Taylor used to beat his own father if his school fees were late, and threatened to burn down his school after he lost a student council election. |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/07/0725_030725_liberiataylor.html
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| | afrol News - Liberia ex-President surrenders arms to UN |
| | Mr Blah, a long-serving Vice President under Mr Taylor July 2000 - August 2003), was Liberia's President for just over two months, until the inauguration of the current national transitional government headed by Charles Gyude Bryant on 14 October 2003 as part of a peace deal brokered among the country's three warring factions. | | | » 04.06.2003 - Joy as Sierra Leonean special court indicts Liberian President | | | » 23.06.2003 - Switzerland blocks Liberian President's accounts |
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http://www.afrol.com/articles/13904
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| | PRESS STATEMENT BY SECURITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT ON LIBERIA |
| | Following is the text of a press statement on Liberia delivered today by the President of the Security Council, John Negroponte (United States): | | | Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Hedi Annabi, briefed members of the Security Council on the October 1 establishment of the United Nations Mission in Liberia, the status of force generation and troop deployment, and on implementation by the parties of the Accra Agreement. | | | They also appealed to the international community to intensify its support to the economic reconstruction of the country. |
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http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/sc7890.doc.htm
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| | President of Liberia Thanks Pat |
| | In fact, in the closing ceremonies of this 72-hour nonstop event, the President of Liberia specifically thanked Dr. Pat Robertson for his support not just for the Crusade, but for his faith in Liberia as a nation. | | | Robertson is recognized for his support of Jesus Crusade and the country of Liberia. | | | The President was there all three days and proclaimed that as a nation they need to fall prostrate before Jesus, humble themselves and ask for forgiveness to receive God's blessing. |
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http://www.patrobertson.com/PressReleases/LiberiaCrusade.asp
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| | President of Liberia says he'll step down |
| | NEW ORLEANS AFTER THE STORM: City's criminal trials are on hold; jail fills | | | A UN tribunal indicted the Liberian president on war-crimes charges this year. | | | Bush offered few clues to his thinking, but he used his July 4 speech to defend his view that the United States should be actively involved in international affairs. |
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http://www.freep.com/news/nw/liber5_20030705.htm
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| | CNN.com - Liberia's Taylor accepts asylum offer - Jul. 7, 2003 |
| | Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Liberian President Charles Taylor meet in Monrovia on Sunday. | | | A senior State Department official said Saturday that the United States was trying to get commitments from both sides to accept a new cease-fire. | | | Embattled President Charles Taylor of war-torn Liberia said Sunday that he has accepted an offer of asylum from Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, but he did not specify a timetable. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/06/liberia.taylor
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| | President_of_Liberia |
| | The following is a list of Presidents of Liberia: |
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| | CBC News:U.S. Marines land in Liberia |
| | The U.S. president had been under international pressure to send American soldiers, but instead asked the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to handle peacekeeping duties. | | | MONROVIA, LIBERIA - U.S. President George Bush said a small force of Marines has landed in Liberia to try to open the ports so humanitarian aid can get in but that aid will not increase until the country's president leaves. | | | The country has been involved in two months of bloody battles between rebel forces and President Charles Taylor's government troops. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/08/06/liberia030806
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| | Liberia president visits UAE |
| | United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahyan held a meeting on Sunday in Abu Dhabi with the president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, currently visiting the UAE. | | | The two presidents reviewed bilateral relations and means of backing and consolidating joint cooperation in the economic field. | | | Click here if you are interested, or know someone who is. |
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/000424/2000042428.html
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| | CONFIDENTIAL LETTER FROM THE EX-PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA |
| | PLEASE I AM PROMISING TO SHARE THE FUNDS 50/50 IF YOU CAN QUITELY GET THIS FUND OUT INTO YOUR ACCOUNT. | | | PRESENTLY I AM IN EXILE IN CALABAR - NIGERIA WHERE I AM STAYING UNDER CLOSE WATCH BY THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT WHO KINDLY OFFERED ME ASYLUM. | | | I WAS FORCED TO RESIGN AS THE PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA IN WEST- AFRICA BY THE UNITED NATIONS / INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES WHICH WAS SPEARHEADED BY THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT, MR. |
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http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-biu@linux.org.il/msg00277.html
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