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That is, of course, a real possibility in a rebellion as bloody as this one. Aspiring to succeed Doe is Charles McArthur Taylor, a former Liberian official who led about 150 guerrillas across the border from the Ivory Coast last Christmas Eve. Recruits flocked to the rebel ranks after the army, headed by members of Doe's minority Krahn tribe, staged a series of reprisal attacks on the villages of the Gio and Mano tribes in Taylor's base area...
...military to power 28 years ago. Like the Philippines' Corazon Aquino, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto and Nicaragua's Violeta Chamorro, Aung San Suu Kyi's moral authority stems from family history and political tragedy: her father, Aung San, was a national hero who was assassinated in 1947, on the eve of Burma's independence from Britain. But unlike some of the others, who stepped into political vacuums only after great coaxing, Aung San Suu Kyi wants to be Prime Minister. The league's campaign paraphernalia included posters, T shirts and buttons that bore her picture and the words MY HEAD...
...Winnetka, where his parents moved when he was a teenager; closer at hand is the north Chicago neighborhood where he was born. Somewhere in between is his present house, where he lives with his wife Annette and their three children: Rachel, 10, Gabriel, 7, and Eve, 3. "I do regard the law as a noble calling," he elaborates. "But I can't shake the notion that the law is coming ((comin')) up short in its inability to deal with intimate human situations...
...chairman of the Russian parliament, Yeltsin is not an executive president, and with only a four-seat majority, he will have to bargain and compromise in order to pass legislation. On the eve of his election, in a shrewd move to broaden his appeal, he promised to form a power-sharing coalition with the more conservative factions. He said he had learned the "value and importance of political compromise." As a result, he will have to be diplomatic and conciliatory, which is not his natural style. His radical reform package, therefore, is not likely to become reality anytime soon...
...wave of killings between the Gio and Mano tribes, who dominate the Front, and Doe's Krahn tribe supporters. Led by Charles Taylor, a Gio and former official in the Doe government, the Front's ranks have swelled to 5,000 insurgents since the rebellion began last Christmas Eve. They now seem poised to overthrow the former master sergeant, whose regime has been accused of corruption, economic mismanagement and human rights abuses...