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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...
Approximately 40 students, University administrators, and some of the week's scheduled guest speakers gathered yesterday in the Cronkhite Center for brunch and speeches by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a former finance minister of Liberia, and Dr. Susan Ware, an associate professor of history at New York University...
...disease and death as he had done, I went to those places and in most cases found people Greene had met and put into his novels." He tells us that he developed gangrene in South America and got dysentery in the same Mexican boardinghouse where Greene was stricken. In Liberia, locale of Greene's first safari, officials he interviewed had their throats cut a week later, when the government abruptly changed hands...
...Africa, we stand very far behind in political development," said Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the former minister of finance in Liberia...
...What Liberia and Panama are to the oil tanker, Delaware is to the U.S. corporation: a friendly, light-taxing home port. Some 180,000 corporations are based there, at least on paper, including 45% of those listed on the New York Stock Exchange and 56% of the FORTUNE 500. So when Governor Michael Castle signed new antitakeover legislation last week, the impact reached far beyond Delaware's borders. Among its provisions, the law requires that takeover artists who buy between 15% and 85% of a Delaware-registered company wait three years before selling off assets or merging the target firm...