Word: roosevelts
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MONROVIA, Liberia: Sporadic shooting continued in Monrovia as a US. helicopter whisked Liberian warlord Roosevelt Johnson out of the country. US. officials say Johnson is slated to attend a summit conference in Accra, Ghana next week which could end six-year old civil war in Liberia. Spokesman Mike mockery said the White House endorsed the summit and stands ready to support any legitimate democratically elected government. "This won't be the first summit they've had," says Time's Marguerite Michael's. "There are two ways to stop the fighting. One is to come in with heavy firepower and force...
Liberia's latest spasm of fighting began earlier this month. Leaders of the country's two main warring factions--who, following a peace agreement last August, had formed a new ruling council in Monrovia--announced their intention to arrest one of their own council members, Roosevelt Johnson. His followers responded by spilling into the streets, blowing up two helicopters recently donated by the U.S. and seizing hundreds of hostages, including, reportedly, at least 20 peacekeepers. Holed up in an old military base, they exchanged fire with opposing militiamen...
...homeless refugees. Hitler's righthand propaganda czar went as far as to say "At bottom... I believe both the English and the Americans are happy that we are exterminating the Jewish riff-raff." This is certainly the conclusion he would have been led to if he was aware that Roosevelt had the ability to order a bombing of the railway lines leading to the concentration camp Auschwitz but refused to do so. Such an action could have saved thousands upon thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish lives...
...years ago the tall, restless character who moved into the White House with Franklin Roosevelt was viewed by large portions of the U.S. public with some degree of derision if not alarm. They caricatured her, joked about her, called her 'Eleanor Everywhere.' They couldn't believe that any one woman could sincerely embrace the multiplicity of interests ... Today enough people have met Mrs. Roosevelt, talked with her ... checked up on her, to accept her for what she is: the prodigious niece of prodigious, ubiquitous, omnivorous Roosevelt I. Everything she says, everything she does, is genuinely and transparently motivated. Sophisticates...
TUZLA, BOSNIA: First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton greeted U.S. troops on the front lines of the Bosnia peacekeeping mission in the first visit by a first lady to a potentially hostile area since Eleanor Roosevelt. Mrs. Clinton also met with members of the Federation Constitutional Court, where she was told about the death wrought by the civil war. "Sarajevo is the largest graveyard in the world," Katarina Mandic told the first lady. "On every corner we find dead bodies. Dead animals. We found blood and destruction everywhere." Mrs. Clinton is on an eight-day goodwill trip through Europe with...