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- <text id=91TT1877>
- <title>
- Aug. 26, 1991: World Notes:Madagascar
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 26, 1991 Science Under Siege
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 34
- World Notes
- MADAGASCAR
- Voting with Their Feet
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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