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...Taylor, who commands the main rebel force and controls most of the Liberian countryside, vowed to resist the West Africans' intervention. He started by launching a new offensive last week to seize control of the divided capital, Monrovia. "We will use guns, machetes, knives," he cried. "We will kill all of them...
...mansion, shot down President William Tolbert and later executed 13 of Tolbert's associates on the beach. High school dropout Doe thereupon became President, the first from one of the indigenous tribes, the Krahns. He accused his predecessors of corruption, but his main goal was the end of Americo- Liberian rule. "The choice we faced," recalls Richard Moose, who was then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, "was either to move into the situation, which was universally considered out of the question, and take control -- or live with what confronted...
...Washington, Defense Department spokesperson Pete Williams said the Liberian capital of Monrovia was relatively quiet yesterday...
...global trouble spot. Last Saturday night George Bush ordered U.S. Marines into the civil war-torn African nation of Liberia. Their job: to evacuate any of the 370 Americans residing there who wanted to get out. On Sunday a force of 225 Leathernecks from four U.S. warships off the Liberian coast landed by helicopter in the capital of Monrovia and quickly began rounding up U.S. citizens, many of whom had gathered at the American embassy and communications centers in the city. The Marines, some of whom carried M-60 machine guns and light antitank weapons, encountered no immediate resistance...
...rescue mission followed a threat on Saturday by Prince Johnson, the leader of one of two Liberian rebel groups, to arrest "all foreign nationals," beginning with American, British, Lebanese and Indian citizens. Johnson, whose troops occupy much of the capital and have besieged the mansion of President Samuel K. Doe, said he wanted the arrests "to create an international incident, so foreign troops can come in to intervene." The rebel leader may have thought that a foreign presence would help to topple Doe. At the White House Sunday morning, presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater made it clear...