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	Jerry Rawlings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Jerry Rawlings was imprisoned for an attempted coup in 1979.
		Rawlings and his party the NDC, were elected in 1992 and again in 1996 in free and fair elections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jerry_John_Rawlings (1422 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jerry Rawlings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jerry Rawling (born 1947) is a longtime Ghanaian politician who served as the country's president twice.
		Jerry Rawling was imprisoned for an attempted coup in 1979.
		Jerry Rawling was imprisoned for an attempted coup in 1979 1979 is a common year starting on Monday.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jerry-Rawlings (2194 words)

	IYV Eminent Person, Jerry Rawlings, stresses role of volunteers in fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jerry Rawlings, a UN Eminent Person for the 2001 International Year of Volunteers (IYV) has traveled to many African countries on an anti-AIDS campaign stressing the role of volunteers in the fight against the epidemic.
		Rawlings stressed the role of volunteers as an integral part of care and support initiatives, and highlighted that government efforts to counter the spread of AIDS be complemented by the "voluntary spirit" of African people.
		Rawlings, while Guinea maintains a relatively low infection rate in comparison to that of its neighbours, everyone must continue to be made aware of the damage posed by the epidemic.
	www.unv.org /Infobase/articles/2001/01_12_13BWA_aids.htm (901 words)

	Jerry Rawlings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jerry John Rawlings (born 1947) is a longtime Ghanaian (additional info and facts about Ghanaian) politician who served as the country's president twice.
		Initially during his time in office, he committed his government to populist reforms such as socialist (A political advocate of socialism) economics and anti-corruption (Inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by commiting a felony)) measures.
		He retired in 2001 and was succeeded by John Kufuor (additional info and facts about John Kufuor), his main opponent in the 1996 election who defeated Rawlings's vice-president John Atta-Mills (additional info and facts about John Atta-Mills) in 2000 and 2004.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jerry_rawlings.htm (235 words)

	Volunteer against HIV/AIDS: Jerry John Rawlings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	MSN Encarta - Rawlings, Jerry John
		Jerry John Rawlings, born in 1947, president of Ghana (1982-2000).
		Charged with treason for participating in a failed coup in May 1979, Rawlings garnered popular support during his trial by publicly denouncing the corruption of the regime of Colonel Ignatius K. Acheampong.
		In June 1979 Rawlings, freed from prison by fellow junior military officers, overthrew the government, and declared himself head of state.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761584105/Jerry_Rawlings.html (364 words)

	allAfrica.com: Ghana: Ghana's Ex President Jerry Rawlings Appears Before National Reconciliation Commission
		Rawlings, 55, was summoned to answer questions about the murders in 1982 of three high court judges and a retired military officer and in relation to extra-judicial military killings in 1984.
		Rawlings said he had done this to free the man's soul as he prepared to meet his maker.
		Rawlings also acknowledged Thursday that he had watched a few minutes of a 1984 videotape of the interrogation of injured soldiers, but had not seen the subsequent alleged executions of the men as he had left the screening "to attend to other pressing matters," adding "I asked that the film be taken away.
	allafrica.com /stories/200402130002.html (916 words)

	Anatomy Of Ghana Political Leaders Since Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The PNP did not seem to have satisfied the standards of the A FRC as Rawlings and his men struck again on December 31, 1979 to launch a ‘revolution’ which lasted till 1992 when general elections were held.
		Rawlings resigned from the army and contested on the ticket of the National Democratic Convention (NDC) which swept the polls of that year.
		Rawlings and his party again contested and won the 1996 elections and is currently serving the last of the two terms mandated by the constitution.
	www.ghana.com /republic/presidents/rawlings.html (368 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Multimedia - Jerry John Rawlings
		Ghanaian military ruler Jerry John Rawlings seized control of the country’s government in 1981 and ruled without a parliament or constitution.
		He permitted the drafting of a new constitution in 1992 and won re-election the same year.
		After having served two terms, Rawlings stepped down in 2000 and formally retired as president in January 2001.
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	There are all types of leaders, but the leader that faces the greatest dilemma is one that has a conscience
		Rawlings again is proving that he has the wisdom to solve the problems for the people of Ghana, after all that is what he is being accused of.
		Rawlings at the beginning of the revolution was a very bitter and angry man who had observed corruption in high places with no liability.
		Rawlings is not a dictator although his demeanor in handling the elite classes was not that great in the past, today he might handle the same situation differently.
	www.nyu.edu /classes/keefer/ww1/chin.html (5251 words)

	Rawlings blames some African practices for AIDS spread
		Rawlings said these practices include wife inheritance and other cultural and behaviours that prevented communities to acknowledge or discuss sexual matters and the use of condoms openly.
		Rawlings said that the answer to the incurable disease lies in curbing its causes rather than in antiretroviral drugs that prolong the lives of people living with HIV.
		Rawlings, who ruled for 19 years, is also credited for bringing to the fore the plight of AIDS in the continent on the international agenda and forums in Africa as well as before the recent UN General Assembly's Special Session on HIV/AIDS.
	www.aegis.com /news/pana/2001/PA011102.html (747 words)

	Jerry Rawlings - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Rawlings and his party the NDC, were elected in 1992 and again in 1996 in elections criticized for inconsistencies.
		Rawlings' obiovus lack of respect for all forms of authority was seen as the primary catalyst for disrespect in Ghanaian society.
		Rawlings did not sometimes respect the ethnic sensibilities of Ghanaians - once telling some Fante chiefs that their capital was so dirty and even cats clean up after they excrete.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Jerry_Rawlings (861 words)

	Conservative candidate elected in Ghana: President Gerry Rawlings to step down
		Rawlings, who seized power in a military coup in 1981 as a young junior officer, has apparently agreed to retire from the presidency after serving two terms of office—the maximum allowed under the constitution.
		Jerry Rawlings came to power in a country, which, more than anywhere else in Africa, was associated with the politics of Pan Africanism.
		Rawlings' “second coming” took the form a coup which had popular support at the end of 1981.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jan2001/ghan-j04.shtml (1568 words)

	CNN.com - Ghana's Rawlings at rights panel - Feb. 12, 2004
		Many were expecting explosive revelations from the outspoken and charismatic Rawlings, who ruled the country for 20 years, but the commission did not ask him any questions about his possible direct involvement in a number of high-profile killings.
		Rawlings, who led coups in 1979 and 1981 and had three former heads of state shot on a beach for corruption, was summoned as part of an investigation into the 1982 murders of three judges and a retired army officer, as well as the 1984 killing of a soldier.
		Rawlings told the commission he had recorded on audiotape the confession of one of the people linked to 1982 deaths but did not know where it was.
	cnn.com /2004/WORLD/africa/02/12/ghana.rawlings.reut/index.html (385 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.
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	Africa Prize Laureate Jerry Rawlings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As leader of Ghana since 1981, President Rawlings has transformed his country from a condition of economic crisis to a model of self-reliance, consistently focusing on the need for increased food production.
		Rawlings spoke of Ghana's path toward self-reliance: "Our national recovery program depends on restoring the small-scale farmer to the center, not only of our agricultural and economic policy, but also of our social and political affairs."
		Rawlings' vision is reflected in tangible results: Overall food production has steadily increased in the past decade, and Ghana has achieved self-sufficiency in three staple crops: maize, cassava and yams.
	www.thp.org /prize/93/rawlings.htm (200 words)

	No. 925: Jerry Rawlings' Era
		The simple reason was that by 1982, students who had initially supported Rawlings' bogus "transparency and accountability" political invocations, had realized that he was a dupe.
		Thereafter until the 1990s, every term/semester, Rawlings found it convenient to close down the universities because students were on the charted pathways of anti-Rawlingsian politics.
		Rawlings in the same province of achievement and eminence.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads/925.html (445 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Rawlings farewell to military
		Ghana's outgoing leader, Jerry Rawlings, has made his final address to the country's armed forces as their commander-in-chief.
		He said he was leaving office with the same sense of optimism and hope that he had in 1981 when he mounted the second of two military coups that brought him to power.
		The elections, which were the third since Mr Rawlings re-introduced multi-party politics in 1992, marked the first peaceful democratic transition of power since Ghana's independence.
	newsimg.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/africa/1103964.stm (304 words)

	Jerry J. Rawlings -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Rawlings was the son of a Scottish father and a Ghanaian mother.
		Rawlings, Jerry J. military and political leader in Ghana who twice (1979, 1981) overthrew the government and seized power.
		The letter J has a history that is linked with the history of the letter I. The Romans and their European successors used I both for the vocalic i and for the consonantal y (as in the English word yet).
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	CNN.com - Ghana braces for life after Rawlings - December 4, 2000
		Whoever wins Thursday's presidential elections, even Rawlings' staunchest critics concede that it is the end of a remarkable era for the West African nation.
		When Rawlings first took power, aged 32, two weeks before promised elections in 1979 as head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, he ordered the public execution of three former military heads of state.
		There are dozens of private FM radio stations and scores of newspapers, many of which do not mask their criticism of Rawlings.
	www.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/12/04/ghana.politics.era.reut (952 words)

	CNN.com - Ghanaian elections herald end of Rawlings' era - December 6, 2000
		Rawlings, who seized power twice through the barrel of a gun but won multi-party elections in 1992 and 1996, cannot run for a third term because of a constitutional two-term limit.
		He said Rawlings had "behaved as if he was above the law," although he conceded that not everything in his tenure had been negative.
		"President Rawlings and the NDC have given this country peace, stability and relative prosperity," he said in a pre- recorded message on state media.
	cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/12/06/ghana.elections.02.reut/index.html (691 words)

	Meles, Rawlings discuss HIV/AIDS
		Rawlings, who is on a three-day visit as UN's Eminent Person on Volunteerism, has been advocating a key role for volunteers in the HIV/AIDS fight.
		According to the radio, quoting the Foreign Ministry, Meles told Rawlings that Ethiopia was approaching the issue aggressively under the National HIV/AIDS prevention and control led by the Presidency.
		Rawlings, who also met with Ethiopian religious leaders on the issue, emphasised the need for active public participation in the fight against the alarming spread of the disease.
	www.aegis.com /news/pana/2001/PA010926.html (370 words)

	CNN.com - Opposition leader says it's time for Ghana to move on - December 6, 2000
		Rawlings, a former air force flight lieutenant who has been in power since he staged his second military coup in 1981 but restored civilian rule in 1992, has to stand down as president under a two-term constitutional limit.
		Rawlings himself, who has said his party would respect the election result but has given few clues on what he might do when he stands down, was due to address the nation on state media at 8 p.m.
		"President Rawlings and the NDC government have given this country peace, stability and relative prosperity," he said in a prerecorded message broadcast by state media late Tuesday.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/12/06/ghana.elections.reut (572 words)

	Jerry Rawlings - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Jerry Rawlings - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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	Jerry Rawlings < Officials < Government < Ghana < : news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The tough mother of four, found her voice to report to the police and to go on air to tell of Jerry Rawlings, saying that he could not do anything to her.
		In an interview with CITI NEWS, Nana Fredua said his plaintiff is satisfied that Article 6 of the Constitution which makes Jerry Rawlings the founder of the...
		In Ghana, Jerry Rawlings attempted to choose a leader for the Ghanaian people.
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	Landmark election in Ghana as citizens vote to replace President Jerry Rawlings \| Business \| BBC World Service
		There is no doubt that Jerry Rawlings has had a tremendous influence over the development of Ghana's economy.
		She has followed Mr Rawlings career since she first met him many years ago when she worked for the US Government.
		She told our reporter Russell Padmore that she sensed from that occasion that he was a man who was often very engaged, very energetic, very restless and very direct in ways that were unusual for African politicians - or politicians anywhere.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/business/highlights/001206_ghana.shtml (866 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Ghana election diary: Rawlings influence
		Perhaps he saw his own reflection in Jerry Rawlings' olive fatigues, who was a military head of state at the time, and found comfort in the government's fairly progressive foreign policy posture.
		Seeing the stunned look on my face, Mr Rawlings called me over at the end of the press conference, put his hand over my little slumped shoulder and asked me what it was I'd wanted to know.
		In it, he asks President Obasanjo to intervene in what he alleges are President John Kufuor administration's attempts to rig the 7 December poll, warning that anything short of free and fair elections would have "a ripple effect and derail the democratic process," with implications for the whole of West Africa.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4016185.stm (535 words)

	Pricenoia.com - Jerry John Rawlings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Guidelines for Ghana's return to constitutional rule: Nationwide broadcast by the head of state and chairman of the PNDC, FLT.-LT. Jerry John Rawlings,...
		Jerry John Rawlings, Chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council
		Jerry John Rawlings, Chairman of the Provisional National Defence Council, January...
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