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...true in other West African nations, Senegal's primary international concern is Liberia's lack of progress toward peace and the threat of further expanding the present conflict into neighboring states. Recently, Liberian troops moved from Sierra Leone into the northwestern parts of Liberia, occupying territory formerly controlled by Charles Taylor and his National Patriotic Front of Liberia forces. International troops from several West African nations were supposed to maintain the status quo and perpetuate a shaky cease-fire, but the distrust and hatred of Taylor, his equal lack of confidence in the neutrality of the international troops...
...Without thinking, I told the fellow, 'I swam," Quist says. "After that, of course, I had to keep it up. I told him that Texaco had funded the whole thing. That first they flew me to the Liberian coast, where I waded out into the ocean and started swimming west. A boat followed me and picked me up at night so I could sleep, butanchored so I could start in the same place thenext day. I said the whole trip took about two anda half weeks...
...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...