Word: liberian
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...other side Daydee's comrades laughed and milled about, each step sending the carpet of shell casings clinking like Christmas bells. The cause of the celebration: after weeks of dickering and delay, a couple hundred Nigerian peacekeepers finally arrived at an airport more than 40 km outside the Liberian capital. The battle that had claimed at least 1,000 lives seemed over. But even as the city stuttered back toward normalcy, a troubling question hung over the peace: Would President Charles Taylor keep his promise to leave the country, as the rebels demanded? "He has to resign and leave...
...beckoning from a gleaming hall, with the caption: "Come join us at preschool soon." The last page has only this text: "Generally, stories say 'The End' right here. But let's try this - 'The Beginning.'" For now, though, the new start will have to be delayed, probably until the Liberian civil war comes...
...horribly sad. The people of Liberia have been pleading for outside help to stop the chaotic civil war that since June has killed over 1,000 civilians. And last week help was supposed to arrive - not the 2,300 U.S. Marines on the three gunships expected off the Liberian coast last weekend (they as yet have no orders to come ashore), but an African peacekeeping force, known as ECOMOG, from the Economic Community of West African States. But last Wednesday, when an advance team of 10 military advisers finally set off for a fact-finding mission to the Liberian capital...
...country's 3.5 million people appear desperate for foreign intervention, particularly by the U.S., which many still view as Liberia's godfather more than 150 years after the country was founded by freed American slaves. Foreign diplomats say the risk that the U.S. will face resistance is low. "The Liberian people love Americans too much," says a Western regional analyst in Monrovia. "This really is one country in Africa where it would be relatively easy to solve the problem with a small stabilization force and a small capital investment...
...Charles Taylor, Liberian President, indicted by the U.N. for war crimes, trying to set terms for when he will leave his war-torn nation...