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MONROVIA, Liberia--Liberia's rival rebel factions and a representative of President Samuel K. Doe have agreed to meet to try to bring an end to the West African nation's bloody civil war, sources said yesterday...
...rescue mission followed a threat on Saturday by Prince Johnson, the leader of one of two Liberian rebel groups, to arrest "all foreign nationals," beginning with American, British, Lebanese and Indian citizens. Johnson, whose troops occupy much of the capital and have besieged the mansion of President Samuel K. Doe, said he wanted the arrests "to create an international incident, so foreign troops can come in to intervene." The rebel leader may have thought that a foreign presence would help to topple Doe. At the White House Sunday morning, presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater made it clear...
...securities industry has laid off 45,000 employees, or about 10% of its work force, since the 1987 crash. The hard times caused home sales to slide 15% in the Northeast last year. "It's hard to see how things could get terribly much worse in the region," says Samuel Hayes, a professor at the Harvard Business School...
...dead" on that ball. He cannot hit it again unless he passes through a wicket. This can leave a player cooling his heels on the sidelines for a half an hour while his opponent hits through. Darryl Zanuck, one of old Hollywood's croquet fanatics, who included Harpo Marx, Samuel Goldwyn and Louis Jourdan, described the predicament: "When you're three-ball dead, you're just a useless...
...fear of fungus keep you awake at night. "Your court can disappear on you if you're not careful," says Tom Lufkin, a member of the game's hall of fame who has built his own court at his nursery in Northern California. Lufkin, who played for years on Samuel Goldwyn's two courts in Beverly Hills, recalls those glory years of the game when fierce rivalries between literary lions like Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman led to marathon grudge matches on the producer's courts. Woollcott once said, "My doctor forbids me to play unless...