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<text id=91TT1007>
<title>
May 13, 1991: World Notes:Lesotho
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
May 13, 1991 Crack Kids
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 39
World Notes
LESOTHO
Sweeping Out The Sweeper
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<p> 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.
</p>
<p> 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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