How to turn a warmonger into a hero
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General Mohamed Farah Aideed of Mogadishu, Somalia, was born in 1934 when his part of the country was ruled by Italy. He joined the army and studied at the Italian Military Academy in 1954. He became chief of police in Mogadishu in 1958 and then chief of staff of the Mogadishu Military Training Centre. Aideed followed a course at the Soviet War Strategic Academy from 1963-1966. President Siad Barre imprisoned him for six years without trial until he was needed in the Ethiopian war. Aideed established the United Somali Congress to overthrow Barre.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1993
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Local hero: your community needs you
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Many UK companies have still failed to realize that they can derive considerable benefits from involving the local community in their business strategy. Social responsibility can bring clear short-term rewards, and is even more worthwhile in the longer term. A company which invests time and money in a local school, for example, will find that in the longer term it has a large pool of attractive potential employees. Companies should also accept that they have a moral responsibility to put something back into society.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1997
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A working-class hero or Labout myth?
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Keir Hardie, an illegitimate, self-taught miner who became a journalist and trade unionist, was the first elected Labour MP on Jul 4 1892, in West Ham South. He held fundamentalist beliefs and was an agitator, fighting about unemployment, health and safety, and a minimum wage. He founded the Independent Labour Party which became the modern Labour Party. In 1992 the party is less socialist than Keir Hardie in order to attract members.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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