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...world," ventures a spokesman for Cape Town's mayor. "Little do they know. Our international links are strong." - By Simon Robinson and Peter Hawthorne A Fragile Peace LIBERIA A peace deal signed by government and rebel groups in Liberia lasted just five days as fighting reportedly broke out in Buchanan late last week. The accord, designed to halt almost 15 years of deadly conflict, calls for an interim authority to assume control in October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 8/24/2003 | See Source »

...last week," force commander Festus Okonkwo said when he finally landed in Monrovia. "We couldn't make it, but now we're here." It's been a long time coming. Fighting raged into its second week in central Monrovia last week, and rebels took Liberia's second biggest city, Buchanan. President Charles Taylor promised yet again to step down, this time by Aug. 11, but also said he wouldn't leave as long as his indictment by a war-crimes court in Sierra Leone stands. Though they say they're committed to sending soldiers, the countries behind the ECOMOG force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Late Than Never | 8/3/2003 | See Source »

...anything, the delay of promised peacekeeping forces appears to have encouraged more fighting. Despite cease-fire agreements, rebel groups have launched repeated offensives to capture the capital and the second city, Buchanan, over the past three weeks, leaving hundreds of civilians dead in the ensuing battles. The goal is to create facts on the ground before the peacekeepers arrive - the two rebel groups already control 80 percent of Liberia, and if they can defeat Taylor's forces in the capital before ECOWAS arrives, the peacekeepers' role will simply involve overseeing and guaranteeing the transition to a new government. Some African...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberia: Why We May Have To Go In | 7/31/2003 | See Source »

...America. This analysis was both right and wrong. In February, Dean did set the Democratic National Committee's winter meeting afire, but the reaction of the party faithful to Dean was no different from the Republican faithful's wild enthusiasm for red-meat orators like Alan Keyes and Pat Buchanan in years past. Most Democrats do not have a death wish. Ever since the George McGovern disaster in 1972, the party has routinely chosen technocratic moderates as standard-bearers. This doesn't bode well for Dean, especially now that the war is over. He has been making some real Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Build A Better Democrat | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...ironic that Meyerson and Buchanan, natural political enemies, have now found a point of agreement. Operation Iraqi Freedom has certainly forged a strange coalescence of opinion among the “progressives” and the paleocons...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: Empire, Schmempire | 4/30/2003 | See Source »

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