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<text id=91TT1877>
<title>
Aug. 26, 1991: World Notes:Madagascar
</title>
<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>
</body></article>
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