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- WORLD, Page 39World NotesLESOTHOSweeping Out The Sweeper
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- Those who are swept into power by military coup sometimes
- find themselves swept out the same way. Take Major General Justin
- Lekhanya of Lesotho, a former policeman who seized control of
- the small African country in 1986. Last week rebellious army
- officers marched him to a radio station in the capital of
- Maseru, forced him to read a resignation speech and then
- replaced him with Colonel Elias Ramaema.
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- Although Lekhanya had pledged to bring civilian rule to
- the landlocked mountainous country of 1.5 million by 1992, the
- six-man Military Council had made few preparations. Lekhanya
- also came under increasing criticism for having shot a college
- student in 1988, despite having been cleared of the killing in
- an inquest. A strike last week among some military units for
- higher wages finally helped whisk him out of power.
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