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...Master Sergeant Doe led a band of soldiers into the executive mansion, shot down President William Tolbert and later executed 13 of Tolbert's associates on the beach. High school dropout Doe thereupon became President, the first from one of the indigenous tribes, the Krahns. He accused his predecessors of corruption, but his main goal was the end of Americo- Liberian rule. "The choice we faced," recalls Richard Moose, who was then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, "was either to move into the situation, which was universally considered out of the question, and take control -- or live with...
...months ago, when rebel forces appeared heading for victory over Doe, the U.S. warships steamed toward Liberia, a country founded by freed American slaves that traditionally has close ties to Washington. President Doe, a former army master sergeant who rose to power 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...
...official excuses for the rough-and-ready justice that has become routine in minority neighborhoods. In 1982 the L.A.P.D. was forced to ban the controversial bar-arm choke hold they had been using to apprehend suspects after several people died while in custody. Contends Don Jackson, a former police sergeant in the suburb of Hawthorne who has become a crusader against racially motivated police brutality: "They don't have white kids sit on the curb when they talk to them. They don't have white men and women put their hands out of the car and dump the contents...
President Samuel Doe claims that he has put down more than 30 coup attempts since he seized power, as Master Sergeant Doe, in an army uprising ten years ago. But the dictator's string of victories seems to have run out. A force of some 5,000 rebels last week captured the Roberts Field International Airport; occupied the Firestone rubber plantation, the country's largest private employer; and drew up on the outskirts of Monrovia, the capital. Refusing to resign or flee, Doe barricaded himself in the executive mansion with several hundred members of his Israeli-trained elite guard...
Five months after being appointed the first woman to run a police department in a major city, Houston police chief Elizabeth M. Watson, 40, has come up with yet another unprecedented development: she confirmed last week that she < was carrying the third child she and her husband, police sergeant Robert Watson, had planned. The baby is due in December. "I'm not sure what I think," said a perplexed member of the force. "I don't know that it makes any difference, but it's weird for your chief to be pregnant." Not to worry, Watson replied...