Word: liberians
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...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...
Short, stocky, bearded and a teetotaler, Taylor, 42, is the son of a Liberian mother and an American father. He was born and grew up in Liberia but attended Bentley College in Waltham, Mass. After earning a B.A. in economics in 1977, he continued to be active in emigre Liberian organizations and worked as a mechanic in Boston...
...coup in 1980 made him the first head of state who was not an "Americo-Liberian," the local term for descendants of the freed slaves from the U.S. who founded the country in 1822. Although Doe promptly executed many Americo-Liberians, Taylor returned to Monrovia to volunteer his services. He was appointed head of the General Services Administration, the government's purchasing agency. In 1983, after hearing that Doe was about to try him on charges of embezzling $900,000, he fled to the U.S. He was arrested near Boston and held for extradition but escaped from jail and found...