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- WORLD, Page 34World NotesMADAGASCARVoting with Their Feet
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- Sixteen opposition parties and many of Madagascar's 12 million
- people are convinced that President Didier Ratsiraka rigged his
- 1989 re-election to a third seven-year term.
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- When 400,000 protesters marched on the President's palace
- two weeks ago, his North Korean-trained guard opened fire with
- rifles and grenades. The Red Cross reported that 31 people died
- in the capital city of Antananarivo.
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- Last week a general strike closed the island's banks,
- stores and international airport. Tens of thousands of mourners
- turned out for the funeral of some of those killed, and the
- previously neutral National Council of Churches joined the
- campaign.
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