World IN BRIEF : NIGERIA : Dictator Vows to Swear In a President

Criticized for voiding national elections, Nigeria’s military dictator said that a new president will be sworn in Aug. 27 as previously planned. But critics of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida remained skeptical that he would give up the power he seized in a 1985 coup and might be trying to buy time to avoid threatened cutoffs in foreign aid. Babangida would not say who would be the new president or whether it would be one of the candidates who ran in the elections. There is speculation that he will ask the civilian legislature to choose a president, which would be legal under the constitution. The National Assembly could conceivably elect Babangida.