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...Liberia as part of a 1,000-person, African-led peacekeeping force. Accompanying Bush on his five-nation trip to Africa last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell said any deployment of U.S. troops would be "very limited in duration and scope" and would coincide with the departure of Liberian President Charles Taylor, who Bush has demanded must give up power as a condition for the U.S.'s sending troops there. In an interview with TIME, Taylor said he would leave a "good, working week" after the arrival of international peacekeepers. He plans to stick around long enough to preside...
...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...
...African regional body, ECOWAS, agreed to send 3,000 peacekeeping troops to monitor the fragile week-long cease-fire between the government and rebel groups as U.S. President George W. Bush - on the eve of his first trip to Africa - considered whether to send American forces to join them. Liberian President Charles Taylor offered once more to step down, but only once foreign troops arrived. Liberia was founded by former American slaves. A senior U.S. official told TIME that Bush was weighing intervention primarily because U.S. inaction could make him look bad during his trip to the continent this week...
...Scotland and Wales. In the reshuffle, which followed the resignation of Health Secretary Alan Milburn, the number of Cabinet posts was reduced from 23 to 21. Rocky Road to Peace AFRICA Tensions remained high in both Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as peace talks between the Liberian government and rebels resumed in Ghana and U.N. peacekeepers failed to halt fighting in the eastern Ituri region of Congo. The Liberian talks had started a week previously but stalled as rebel troops attacked Monrovia, and a U.N.-backed court in Sierra Leone indicted President Charles Taylor for war crimes...
...Killed. Sam (Mosquito) Bockarie, 40, West African warlord, former hairdresser and champion disco dancer; in a shootout with Liberian soldiers; near the Ivory Coast-Liberia border. A native of Sierra Leone, Bockarie was one of the most feared guerrilla fighters to emerge from the overlapping civil uprisings in West Africa. In March, a U.N.-backed special court investigating atrocities in Sierra Leone indicted Bockarie for crimes against humanity. In a 1999 interview with a wire service, he admitted, "I cannot tell how many people I have killed...