Hussen read his sixty-three-page government program in a nine-and-a-half-hour parliamentary speech

Evidence

Prime Minister Hussen took nine and a half hours to read his government’s program in parliament. US Department of State, Incoming Telegram 12445, July 16, 1964. The program was sixty-three pages long. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 1414

Categorization

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