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	Jerry Rawlings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rawlings was born in 1947, to a Ghanaian mother from Dzelukope, near Keta, in the Volta Region, and a Scottish father.
		Rawlings was a member of the Ghanaian military with the rank of Flt Lt. Jerry Rawlings was imprisoned for an attempted coup in 1979.
		Rawlings ceased to be a member of the Ghana Armed Forces with effect from September 14, 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerry_Rawlings (1150 words)

	Volunteer against HIV/AIDS: Jerry John Rawlings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Rawlings also established "Peoples and Workers Defense Committees" - volunteer committees that gave a voice to the needs and priorities of local communities, shared these with regional and national administration, and participated in the supervision and monitoring of development programmes and projects.
		Rawlings is one of four Eminent Persons who volunteered their services to the United Nations Volunteers programme (UNV) for the International Year of Volunteers (IYV).
		Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings was born in Accra on 22 June 1947 to a Ghanaian mother and a Scottish father.
	www.unv.org /infobase/articles/2002/02_07_08ESP_jjr.htm (513 words)

	Accra Daily Mail - Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Rawlings was to garner massive student support, particularly when among his maiden remarks shortly after overthrowing the PNP and summarily dissolving Parliament and proscribing all political parties, the then-junior Ghanaian Air Force officer noted, quite creditably, that due to the pathologically regressive political gimmickry of Mr.
		John Agyekum-Kufuor, was a Parliamentary Whip, a deputy to Mr.
		Rawlings' so-called Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) at a time when the latter individual and his political machinery were at their most, paradoxically, populist and dictatorially extortionate.
	www.accra-mail.com /mailnews.asp?id=15308 (1253 words)

	History of Ghana
		Rawlings and his colleagues suspended the 1979 constitution, dismissed the President and his cabinet, dissolved the Parliament, and proscribed existing political parties.
		Jerry John Rawlings was inaugurated as President and members of Parliament swore their oaths of office.
		Jerry RAWLINGS, head of state since 1981, won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996, but was constitutionally prevented from running for a third term in 2000.
	infotut.com /geography/Ghana (5574 words)

	Graphic Ghana - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Rawlings was not registered as one of the founders in compliance with that law, and added that “hence the plaintiff say there is no factual basis for Article 6 of defendants constitution”.
		Rawlings was neither a “founder” nor “the founding father” of the NDC party which was registered with the Electoral Commission of Ghana.
		Jerry John Rawlings is the founder of the NDC”.
	www.graphicghana.info /article.asp?artid=9511 (851 words)

	Rawlings, Jerry John - MSN Encarta
		Jerry John Rawlings, born in 1947, president of Ghana (1982-2000).
		In June 1979 Rawlings, freed from prison by fellow junior military officers, overthrew the government, and declared himself head of state.
		By spring 1983 Rawlings was faced with drought, economic decline, and criticism from international human rights groups.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761584105 (390 words)

	Eminent volunteer, Rawlings, completes first mission for IYV 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Rawlings also toured hospitals, clinics and local projects in Maun (northwestern Botswana) and Lobatse (southern Botswana) and spoke to volunteers who have sought to reduce others' suffering by offering counseling and home-based care.
		Rawlings was selected because, in his 19 years as President of Ghana, he worked to help community groups and volunteer services to improve social and economic conditions in his country.
		Rawlings for extending his services to the United Nations as an IYV 2001 Eminent Person, proving that there was "still life after retirement".
	www.unv.org /Infobase/articles/2001/01_04_01BWA_eminent.htm (593 words)

	Flt.-Lt. (Rtd) Jerry John Rawlings
		Jerry John Rawlings was born in Accra on 22nd June, 1947, to a Ghanaian mother from Dzelukope, near Keta, in the Volta Region, and a Scottish father.
		The AFRC, under the chairmanship of Flt.Lt. Rawlings, carried out a "house-cleaning exercise" aimed at purging the Armed Forces and society at large of corruption and graft as well as restoring a sense of moral responsibility and the principles of accountability and probity in public life.
		Rawlings led a section of the Armed Forces to overthrow the PNP administration.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/people/pop-up.php?ID=166 (589 words)

	BU \| APARC \| rawlings
		Jerry Rawlings, as he is universally known, directed the destiny of Ghana for nearly twenty years.
		But, by the late 1970s, the economy was in catastrophic decline, corruption and inefficiency were rife and there was widespread disillusionment with the political system.
		In the early 1980s Jerry John Rawlings established Peoples and Workers Defense Committees as voluntary organizations for the exercise of political power and articulation of local needs and priorities, supervision and monitoring of programs and projects.
	www.bu.edu /aparc/news/rawlings.htm (696 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Rawlings, Jerry John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Rawlings, Jerry John RAWLINGS, JERRY JOHN [Rawlings, Jerry John] (Jeremiah John Rawlings), 1947-, Ghanaian political leader.
		Kufuor, John Kofi Agyekum KUFUOR, JOHN KOFI AGYEKUM [Kufuor, John Kofi Agyekum] 1938-, Ghanaian political leader.
		A lawyer educated at Lincoln's Inn, London, and Oxford, he served in Ghana's parliament (1969-72, 1979-81) between periods of military rule and was detained after the coups of 1972 and 1981.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/10811.html (371 words)

	Economic Community of West African States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jerry John Rawlings (Ghana) 1994 – 27 July 1996
		Abdoulaye Wade (Senegal) 21 December 2001 – 31 January 2003
		John Agyekum Kufuor (Ghana) 31 January 2003 – 19 January 2005
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economic_Community_of_West_African_States (639 words)

	AllRefer.com - Jerry John Rawlings (African History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Jerry John Rawlings (Jeremiah John Rawlings), 1947–;, Ghanaian political leader.
		Of Scottish and Ghanaian descent, Rawlings attended military schools throughout his early life, becoming a skilled pilot and achieving the rank of flight lieutenant.
		After one unsuccessful coup, Rawlings overthrew the government in 1979.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/RawlingJ.html (218 words)

	A charismatic glimpse of the 'New Africa'
		The president of Ghana stepped from the plane at the Allegheny County Airport yesterday and was embraced by scores of fellow Ghanaians waving their country's crimson, green and yellow flag imprinted with a fl star.
		Almost home/Ghana's President Jerry John Rawlings pays tribute to his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman, for her work with women's issues in their home country while visiting the African Heritage Room at the Cathedral of Learning in Oakland yesterday.
		Before Rawlings retired for the evening to a private reception with the Ghanaian Association of Pittsburgh, he spoke before a group of 700 people at the 20th Century Club at Pitt.
	www.post-gazette.com /headlines/19980925ghana1.asp (777 words)

	Winne.com - Report on Ghana, Enhancing Trade and Accruing Investment
		The second presidential and parliamentary elections held in December 1996, retained Jerry John Rawlings as President for a second term of four years.
		In the 2000 general elections after Jerry John Rawlings had completed his two terms in office and had stepped down, his vice, Prof.
		John Evans Atta-Mills lost the elections in the presidential race to John Agyekum Kufuor, then the leader of the biggest opposition party the New Patriotic Party (NPP) which now forms the government.
	www.winne.com /ghana4/bf04.html (1286 words)

	No. 929: Akurang-Parry's Depiction of Jerry Rawlings
		Whether Rawlings passed his GCE or not, at this point in history, is immaterial.
		Ironically, the exodus of Ghanaians in the 80's was not outbound but inbound since the Nigerian government, reeling from its own ineptitude and corruption, and seeking to blame aliens, particularly Ghanaians, for that country's ills had, therefore, ordered the repatriation of all aliens.
		Therefore, the claim that Rawlings was THE cause of migration of Ghanaians to other countries during that period is either uninformed or a wilful mis-statement of the facts.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads/929.html (570 words)

	Rawlings promotes AIDS awareness in Kenya
		Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Former Ghanaian President Jerry John Rawlings took Africa's fight against HIV/AIDS one step further in Nairobi Thursday, pulling out a pack of condoms from his jacket to demonstrate that prevention is better than cure in the anti-AIDS crusade.
		Rawlings said the rate of infection in Ethiopia was over 700 per day compared to 200 per day in Ghana and 40 per day in Botswana.
		Rawlings also urged the media to "give the shock treatment to our people, to wake our people up to the realities of what is happening."
	www.aegis.com /news/pana/2001/PA010931.html (960 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Rawlings, Jerry John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		RAWLINGS, JERRY JOHN [Rawlings, Jerry John] (Jeremiah John Rawlings), 1947-, Ghanaian political leader.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Rawlings, Jerry John" at HighBeam.
		The main rivalry will be between the ruling NPP led by President John Kufuor and the NDC, led by John Mills.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/RawlingJ.asp (354 words)

	Achimota Secondary School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Achimota School, popularly known as "Motown", is an elite secondary school in Accra Ghana, established in 1927.
		Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African leader and First President of The Republic of Ghana; Jerry John Rawlings, also Head of State of Ghana and his wife, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings; Alhaji Sir Dauda Jhawarra, first Head of State of The Gambia.
		The school occupies over two square miles of prime real estate in the middle of a forest reserve, and its colonial architecture and well-planned landscape make for a visually pleasing tour of the campus and surrounding area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Achimota_School (1207 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Rawlings: The legacy
		Kojo Boakye-Djan, a retired army major and co-conspirator in the 1979 coup, recalls how the Catholic Rawlings was the only person who dared to associate with him school back in 1963 after he had told the authorities he believed in traditional ancestral worship.
		They were killed gruesomely at a military range in circumstances that have led to accusations of complicity being levelled at Rawlings and his wife.
		Despite his questionable human rights record, Rawlings nevertheless became a darling of the Western donors who poured at least $5b into the Ghanaian economy after the regime signed on to economic reforms.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/1050310.stm (968 words)

	Rawlings Pitching Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
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	African Survey Results
		The NDC's charismatic leader, Jerry John Rawlings, is constitutionally barred from contending the 2000 presidential election and the vice-president, John Atta Mills, is expected to stand in his place.
		In the late 1980s Mr Rawlings launched "party-less" local elections which were intended to pave the way for a national system of party-less democracy, but the idea was shelved in response to bilateral donors' demands for multiparty reform.
		Mr Rawlings won the presidential race, with 58% of the vote, compared with 30% for his nearest rival, Professor Albert Adu Boahen of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
	www.unpan.org /EthicsWebSite/database/results/poli-admin-2.html (993 words)

	MISTERSEED CLASSIFIED Habari
		John Githongo and the minister to their Inter-Continental Hotel where they spent most of the afternoons charting with the Kenyans.
		Jerry John Rawlings, Republic of Ghana, Aristides Maria Pereira, Republic of Cape Verde and Masire, Republic of Botswana
		Jerry John Rawlings, Republic of Ghana, Karl Auguste Offmann, Republic of Mauritius,Dr. Navinchandra Ramgoolam, Republic of Mauritius and Ali Hassan Mwinyi, United Republic of Tanzania.
	www.misterseed.com /LATESTnews/APRIL2004/LATESTapril2004.htm (4304 words)

	Rawlings, Jerry John - Search View - MSN Encarta
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		In 1981 he was deposed by Rawlings in a military coup.
		Jerry John Rawlings - Rawlings, Jerry John (Jeremiah John Rawlings), 1947–, Ghanaian political leader.
		Ghana - Republic of Ghana President: John Agyekum Kufuor (2001) Land area: 89,166 sq mi (230,940 sq km);...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0829790.html (158 words)

	Untitled Document
		Modern Ghana: Ghana is currently ruled by Jerry John Rawlings who first came to power in 1979 when he led an unsuccessful military coup.
		Jerry John Rawlings seized power of Ghana's government in 1981 when he overthrew the Third Republic and ruled without a parliament or constitution.
		He permitted the drafting of a new constitution in 1992 and won reelection that same year.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~aofori/History.html (392 words)

	Milwaukee Coffee
		This little coffee shop is famous for the big cup (which looks kind of like a flying saucer) crashing into its roof, and for the fact that Jerry "Beaver" Mathers inaugurated it when the place opened.
		It wasn't really a newsletter; it was publisher's flackery for Silenced, a new novel by Jerry Jenkins, one of the minds behind the multi-hundred-million-dollar Left Behind series—twelve books so far, all about what happens after the Rapture, to people like me. His new book was a futuristic job, set in 2047.
		Jerry John Rawlings was inaugurated as President and members of Parliament swore their oaths..., bauxite, manganese, fish.
	www.opencoffee.com /milwaukee_coffee-archive.html (712 words)

	AllRefer.com - Ghana - Historical Setting \| Ghanaian Information Resource
		As its fourth decade of independence began in 1987, Ghana was under the administration of the Provisional National Defence Council, a military government led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings that had come to power in December 1981.
		Like the Nkrumah administration three decades earlier, the Provisional National Defence Council and Rawlings were criticized for their populism and desire for radical change.
		Despite the difficult early years of the Rawlings regime, Ghana's economy had begun to show signs of recovery by the late-1980s, and preparations were underway to return the country to some form of democratic government.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/ghana/ghana13.html (952 words)

	The University of Glasgow :: Newsletter 221 October 2000 - News
		The President of the Republic of Ghana received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University during his recent visit to Britain.
		His Excellency Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings, accepted the honour in a special ceremony in the University's Senate Room on 12 September, accompanied by his wife, Her Excellency Dr Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings.
		His Excellency Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings accepts a gift from the Chancellor, Sir William Kerr Fraser, after the ceremony.
	www.gla.ac.uk:443 /newsdesk/newsletter/221/html/news13.html (212 words)

	Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		A cheering crowd greets President Bill Clinton, and President Jerry John Rawlings, at the President's address in Independence Square, Accra, Ghana.
		Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, tour Techno Serve and Peace Corps exhibits and hear about the projects on the Techno Serve Grounds in Accra, Ghana.
		Janey Rawlings, and President of Uganda, Jerry John Rawlings and President Bill Clinton on the stage behind her.
	clinton3.nara.gov /Africa/photo-23.html (149 words)

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