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That is, of course, a real possibility in a rebellion as bloody as this one. Aspiring to succeed Doe is Charles McArthur Taylor, a former Liberian official who led about 150 guerrillas across the border from the Ivory Coast last Christmas Eve. Recruits flocked to the rebel ranks after the army, headed by members of Doe's minority Krahn tribe, staged a series of reprisal attacks on the villages of the Gio and Mano tribes in Taylor's base area...
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...
...panic intensified last week when Liberian troops invaded a United Nations compound in Monrovia where hundreds of Gio and Mano refugees were seeking protection. One security guard was killed, and as many as 40 refugees were abducted. In response, the U.S. dispatched a six-ship Navy flotilla to stand off the coast to evacuate American citizens if necessary...
...strong backer of Doe, has assigned two military advisers to counsel the Liberian command on how to restore and maintain army discipline. But asked when the killing would stop, one Monrovia-based diplomat gave this reply: "When the army runs out of ammunition...