Word: doe
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More promising was the unprecedented decision by Nigeria and four other West African nations to send a peacekeeping force of 2,700 troops into Liberia. The plan: to impose a cease-fire and establish a provisional government that would not include either beleaguered President Samuel Doe or his two rivals, Charles Taylor and Johnson...
...only player unheard from during the week's alarms was Doe, still holed up with a few hundred loyalist troops inside the executive mansion. Looking back over the disastrous war, which has now cost some 5,000 lives in the past seven months, U.S. officials could only wonder how their $500 million in a decade of generous aid had ended like this...
MONROVIA, Liberia--Liberia's rival rebel factions and a representative of President Samuel K. Doe have agreed to meet to try to bring an end to the West African nation's bloody civil war, sources said yesterday...
Government sources in Gambia's capital of Banjul said a meeting was being arranged between both rebel factions and a Doe envoy...
...July 29 the violence in Liberia escalated dramatically. In one of the worst massacres of the nine-month-old civil war, troops allegedly loyal to Doe opened fire on some 2,000 refugees holed up in Monrovia's St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Firing with automatic weapons at point-blank range, the forces killed as many as 600. Survivors claimed that most of the victims were members of the Gio and Mano tribes. But the rebels are hardly a single unified front. Johnson's leadership is opposed by Charles Taylor, another insurgent, whose troops control parts of Monrovia...