Word: mano
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through a bloody coup in 1980, had become the object of growing popular resentment because of his regime's rampant corruption and arrogance. The conflict also centered on tribal antagonisms. What support Doe still claimed came from his Krahn tribe, while the rebels received support from the Gio and Mano peoples...
...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...
...impetus is the wave of killings between the Gio and Mano tribes, who dominate the Front, and Doe's Krahn tribe supporters. Led by Charles Taylor, a Gio and former official in the Doe government, the Front's ranks have swelled to 5,000 insurgents since the rebellion began last Christmas Eve. They now seem poised to overthrow the former master sergeant, whose regime has been accused of corruption, economic mismanagement and human rights abuses...
...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...
...threw up some weird shots." But van Breda Kolff, a former player in the National Basketball Association, recognized talent. "Pete was very, very quick," he says. And deceptive. Years later, when Princeton graduate Bill Bradley was a young player with the New York Knickerbockers, he came to Carril for mano-a-mano pointers. Carril, who had not coached Bradley in college, was then in his late 30s; Bradley was in his prime. "He was not bad at making you think he was going to take the shot, when what he was really going to do was drive past you," says...