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...impetus is the 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...
...panic intensified last week when Liberian troops invaded a United Nations compound in Monrovia where hundreds of Gio and Mano refugees were seeking protection. One security guard was killed, and as many as 40 refugees were abducted. In response, the U.S. dispatched a six-ship Navy flotilla to stand off the coast to evacuate American citizens if necessary...
Members of Liberia's Gio tribe have long suspected that President Samuel Doe, who belongs to the Krahn tribe, would like to eradicate their people. Lately their fears have been reinforced as Doe's troops moved into northern Nimba county, a Gio stronghold and hotbed of opposition to the government. The army's ostensible purpose is to rout a ragtag band of perhaps 200 insurgents, but the soldiers have exceeded that mandate, looting and burning towns and firing on Gio civilians...
...widespread custom, called cqo gio (Vietnamese for "scratch the wind"), is used for everything from colds to convulsions. A medicated oil or ointment is rubbed into the skin, which is then firmly stroked with a coin, comb or spoon until contusions appear. The practice seems harmless, says Pediatrician Gentry Yeatman of the Tacoma, Wash., Madigan Army Medical Center, who became familiar with the massage technique during a 1975 stint at a refugee camp in Indiantown Gap, Pa. In a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yeatman warns that most American physicians are unfamiliar with...
...DIED. Gio Ponti, 87, innovative Italian architect, designer and founding publisher (in 1928) of Domus, a leading Italian architectural journal; of cancer; in Milan. Ponti's varied projects included a villa for the Shah of Iran, a ministry of industrial development for Iraq, and the auditorium of the Time-Life Building in Manhattan. But his best-known structure is Milan's 420-ft. wafer-thin Pirelli building, which towers higher than any other in Italy. A stalwart debunker of design cliches and a champion of functionalism, Ponti created scooper-like dinner forks, glass bookshelves in which the volumes...