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...estimated 10,000 Nicaraguan contras waging a hit-and-run war against their country's Sandinista government. Recently, those operations have taken on a new international dimension through the mining of Nicaragua's harbors by the contras: so far, at least four Soviet, Dutch, Panamanian and Liberian ships have been damaged by this sabotage. Last week the U.S. vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the attempted sea blockade. The government of France, long critical of Reagan Administration policy in Central America, has quietly consulted with some Latin American countries over the possibility of helping to remove...
Another attack at sea produced no casualties, but a mystery. Some 500 miles northeast of the Falklands, the 220,117-ton U.S.-owned but Liberian-registered supertanker Hercules was steaming south with her oil tanks empty. Her eventual destination: Alaska. The ship was far from the 200-mile blockade limit, which both Britain and Argentina have declared around the Falklands, when it was attacked by a four-engine aircraft, probably a C130. Bombs were pushed out of the aircraft cargo door; one hit the Hercules but failed to explode on board. None of the 29 crewmen was injured. According...
That trend worries some Liberian officials. "Most of us feel that America is more comfortable with these people than with some intellectuals who might pursue a more independent foreign policy." says one Monrovia official. "We don't see the U.S. doing much to persuade Doe to return Liberia to the civilians. Unless something unforeseen forces him to step down, we think Doe will be in power for at least five more years." The skeptics are not assured by the fact that a commission has begun to draft a new constitution and is expected to complete it before...
While the renewed terror has muted Doe's critics, it has understandably done little to reassure foreign investors or Liberian businessmen of stability any time soon. One reminder is the conduct of Colonel Harrison Pennue, a former corporal and Doe loyalist who likes to boast that he disemboweled President Tolbert. Doe appointed Pennue to a P.R.C. committee charged with collecting $36 million owed by private debtors to the defunct Bank of Liberia. So far, says a foreign businessman, "not one cent" of the millions of dollars in cash that Pennue collected has been turned over to the central bank...
...monthly oil bill of $12 million, supplying more than 20,000 tons of rice at subsidized prices and building new barracks for the army. A team of 100 U.S. Special Forces soldiers arrived in Monrovia on the first anniversary of Doe's coup for joint exercises with the Liberian armed forces. American diplomats insist that they aim to promote a degree of stability that will allow the Liberians to enjoy the "fruits of the revolution." They are also clearly pleased with the pro-American drift of the Doe regime...