Word: liberians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Whit Burnett Award as best general-magazine article on foreign affairs. The Overseas Press Club also presented its Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic reporting from abroad to TIME photographer Christopher Morris of the Black Star agency for pictures published on the British poll-tax riots and the Liberian civil...
...months, the Gulf War drove every other issue--the banking disaster, the Liberian massacres, the growing deficit, higher unemployment, the growing trade gap, and the legacy of the previous year's war in Panama--from newspapers and television broadcasts, from the national conversation. It was a dreamlike state of video war and triumph and it was a shame it ever...
...objected to a provision disqualifying him, as well as opposing commanders, from heading a transitional regime in Monrovia. "I expect to head the interim government," he announced. Prince Yeduo Johnson, whose force killed President Samuel Doe in September, denounced the statement: "Charles Taylor is not going to tell the Liberian people what he wants...
...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...