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...ceremony kicked off late. The president had scheduled the transfer of power to his vice president for 11:59 a.m. Monday. But when the appointed time came, he was returning from the airport, where he had gone to meet South African President Thabo Mbeki. Vice President Moses Blah had entered, exited, and had to return before the ceremony could start...
...ways, Taylor got what he wanted. The Liberian leader has been fighting to redeem his image since June, when he was indicted by a war-crimes court backed by the UN. On Monday, he was dressed in white, headlining a ceremony that included three other African heads of states: Mbeki; Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano, chair of the African Union; and Ghana's John Kufuor, the head of the Economic Community of West African states, which has sent peacekeepers to Liberia. The three had come to see Taylor off, hoping his departure would bring peace to the country...
...manufacturing plant. Tour is perhaps a generous term. That's what it was called on the schedule and that's what the workers at the plant were expecting, but Bush had other ideas. He was running uncharacteristically late for the rigidly on-time President. He left a lunch with Mbeki fifty minutes off the mark, and made up for it by cutting 80 minutes of personal time, but he saw a chance to clip a little more time by speeding up the tour...
...fact, Mbeki gave the president a nice political assist. When he was asked about Liberia he agreed that it was up to African nations to take the lead in peacekeeping. "We're not saying that this is a burden that just falls on the United States," he said. "It really ought to principally fall on us as Africans...
...point exactly and having a prominent African leader say it releases some of the pressure on the U.S. President. Some might argue that Bush is looking for a way out of a deep commitment in Liberia, but Administration officials argue it is a sign of respect for leaders like Mbeki that Bush believes they can be trusted to handle their own affairs. Bush emphasized this point in his public remarks by praising the South African leader's good work inquelling violence in the Congo and Burundi...