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Liberia had always seemed a comfortably quiescent sort of backwater. Founded by freed American slaves in 1822, it had been ruled until Doe by an elite of their descendants, known as Americo-Liberians, who ran everything. The U.S., in turn, used Liberia as a major outpost, building some $500 million worth of facilities, Voice of America transmitters for all of Africa, plus a navigational system and communications station...
...crumbling of the Iron Curtain has, if anything, accelerated the quest for ties that will bind across national frontiers. Now that the West is freed from its obsession with the menace to the East, statesmen are likely to be more vigilant against the dangers of nationalism in their midst. And the more willing they are to suppress old motives for making war, the more able they will be to restrain the proliferation of new means...
...months ago, when rebel forces appeared heading for victory over Doe, the U.S. warships steamed toward Liberia, a country founded by freed American slaves that traditionally has close ties to Washington. President Doe, a former army master sergeant who rose to power through a bloody coup in 1980, had become the object of growing popular resentment because of his regime's rampant corruption and arrogance. The conflict also centered on tribal antagonisms. What support Doe still claimed came from his Krahn tribe, while the rebels received support from the Gio and Mano peoples...
...Bakr had counted on never came, and he and his men soon found themselves surrounded by troops and without food. On the fifth day Bakr agreed to release Robinson, 63, who had been shot in the leg and suffers from diabetes and glaucoma. Next day Bakr and his men freed the remaining hostages and gave themselves...
...appointees, once in their black robes, see the nation and events independently. Often they have exasperated or disappointed the Presidents who appointed them. Earl Warren and Brennan dismayed Ike with their liberalism, but theirs was the clearer view of the country. Warren Burger, who wrote the opinion that freed up the Watergate tapes, was appointed with much fanfare by Richard Nixon himself. Arthur Goldberg resigned at Lyndon Johnson's urging to become United Nations ambassador. L.B.J. twisted the arm of his crony Abe Fortas and put him in Goldberg's place. But when he tried to move Fortas...