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In May 1987, Senegal extradited Captain Moulaye Asham Ould Ashen, a former black member of the Haidalla government accused of corruption, but only after veiled threats from Nouakchott that failure to do so would result in Mauritania's allowing Senegalese dissidents a platform from which to speak out against the government of President Abdou Diouf.
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May and 1987
In May 1987, Gauntlett and Prince Michael of Kent were staying at the home of Contessa Maggi, the wife of the founder of the original Mille Miglia, while watching the revival event.
Turbo C was released on May 18, 1987 and an estimated 100, 000 copies were shipped in the first month of its release.
After UNO's dissolution early in 1987, the Nicaraguan Resistance ( RN ) was organized along similar lines in May.
He was re-elected, unopposed, to a second 6-year term in April 1987 and to a third 6-year term in May 1993 multiparty elections.
Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.
After the May 1987 Gary Hart – Donna Rice scandal, a questionnaire by The New York Times requested things such as psychiatric records and access to FBI files from all 14 presidential candidates.
James Tiptree, Jr. ( August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987 ) was the pen name of American science fiction author Alice Bradley Sheldon, used from 1967 to her death.
On May 19, 1987, at age 71, Sheldon took the life of her 84-year-old, nearly-blind husband and then took her own.
In desperation, Kaunda attempted to sever his ties with the IMF in May 1987 and introduce a New Economic Recovery Programme in 1988.
In May 1987, Australia deported diplomats and broke off relations with Libya because of its activities in Oceania.
The Nationalist Party ( Partit Nazzjonalista ) government elected in May 1987 continued a policy of neutrality and non-alignment, but in a Western context.
The treaty was opened for signature on September 16, 1987, and entered into force on January 1, 1989, followed by a first meeting in Helsinki, May 1989.
Max Headroom is a British-produced American satirical science fiction television series by Chrysalis Visual Programming and Lakeside Productions for Lorimar-Telepictures that aired in the United States on ABC from March 1987 to May 1988.
Mathias Rust ( born 1 June 1968 in Wedel, Schleswig-Holstein, West Germany ) is a German aviator known for his illegal landing on May 28, 1987, near Red Square in Moscow.
On May 13, 1987, Rust left Uetersen near Hamburg and his home town Wedel in his rented Reims Cessna F172P D-ECJB, which was modified by removing some of the seats and replacing them with auxiliary fuel tanks.
" However, on May 11, 1987, the APA's Board of Social and Ethical Responsibility for Psychology ( BSERP ) rejected the DIMPAC report because the report " lacks the scientific rigor and evenhanded critical approach necessary for APA imprimatur ", and concluded that " after much consideration, BSERP does not believe that we have sufficient information available to guide us in taking a position on this issue.
In May 1987 the unauthorized landing of German amateur aviator Mathias Rust next to the Kremlin enabled Gorbachev to remove many hardline opponents of his reforms, including Defense Minister Marshal Sergei Sokolov, from their positions in the military, and to consolidate his authority.
The material elaborated in GSM and its WP1 subgroup was handed over in Spring 1987 to a new GSM body called IDEG ( the Implementation of Data and Telematic Services Experts Group ), which had its kickoff in May 1987 under the chairmanship of Friedhelm Hillebrand ( German Telecom ).
May and Senegal
Weygand acquired a reputation as an opponent of collaboration when he protested, in Vichy, against the Protocols of Paris of 28 May 1941 signed by Admiral Darlan, agreements which granted bases to the Axis in Aleppo ( Syria ), Bizerte ( Tunisia ), and Dakar ( Senegal ) and envisaged an extensive military collaboration with Axis forces in the event of Allied countermeasures.
* Industrious Senegal Muslims Run a ' Vatican ' By NORIMITSU ONISHI, New York Times Published: May 2, 2002, retrieved 2007-11-13.
He became mayor of the city of Thiès, Senegal in November 1956 and then advisory minister in the Michel Debre's government from 23 July 1959 to 19 May 1961.
* Mauritania had two High commissioners, after having been a protectorate since 12 May 1903 ( under a single military Commandant ), from 18 October 1904 the French civil territory of Mauritania under a Commissioner ( part of French West Africa ( AOF ); under its Governor-general in Dakar, Senegal ), and since 12 January 1920 a French colony under a Lieutenant governor ( many incumbents, again under Dakar ), on 28 November 1958 obtaining autonomy ( as Islamic Republic of Mauritania ):
Abdoulaye Wade ( born 29 May 1926 ) is a Senegalese politician who was President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012.
* May 12 – The French pilot Jean Mermoz takes off from Senegal in Africa in the Latécoère seaplane Comte de la Vaulx to make the first successful aerial crossing of the South Atlantic Ocean, flying to Natal, Brazil.
* May 7 – 8 – Stanislaw Skarzynski flies the South Atlantic from Senegal to Brazil in a small single-seater tourist airplane RWD-5bis, in 20 hours 30 minutes, over a distance of.
* May 27 – The prime minister of Mauritania, Ahmed Ould Bouceif, dies in an airplane crash in the Atlantic Ocean off Dakar, Senegal.
*" To Make a Real Difference in the Real Lives of Real People ...", keynote speech at the Third African-African American Summit, Dakar, Senegal, May, 1995-( an AFRICAN CONNECTIONS documentary )-Technical Note: playback requires Flash 10 Player
He was Special Advisor for Energy and Mines to President Abdoulaye Wade from 6 April 2000 to 12 May 2003, as well as Director-General of the Petroleum Company of Senegal ( Société des Pétroles du Sénégal, PETROSEN ) from 13 December 2000 to 5 July 2001.
In addition, there are a number of shorter off-campus May terms, with destinations both within the U. S. and abroad ( Australia, Galapagos, Senegal, Menorca, and Turkey, as recent examples ).
On May 7 / May 8, 1933 Skarzynski flew solo in a small single-seater Polish tourist airplane RWD-5bis ( SP-AJU ) across the southern Atlantic, from Saint-Louis, Senegal to Maceio in Brazil.
After flying from Saint-Louis, in Senegal, to Natal, Brazil, in 12-13 May 1930, the line was complete at last.
In April and May 1974, he served as Lincoln Lecturer, presenting lectures in French in Cameroun, Zaire, and Senegal and in English in Nigeria.
An accident on 13 May 2009 killed five and injured thirty-seven when a Dakar bound train came off the tracks between Bala and Goudiry in Tambacounda Region, Senegal.
A succession of diplomatic posts followed: Ambassador to Senegal from June 1992 to August 1993, Ambassador in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and representative to the European Union from August 1993 to April 1996, Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1996 to 1997, Ambassador to the United States from May 1997 to November 1998.
On May 12 and 26, both Mauritania, the Sénégal River Area and neighbouring parts of both Senegal and Mali faced both a drought and famine.
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