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Stung by worldwide condemnation of the seaside executions in April 1980 that followed his ouster of President William R. Tolbert, Liberia's new head of state, Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe, promised a quick return to civilian rule and a halt to the killings. Seventeen months later, Doe, 30, remains in power-and the killing has resumed. In June, 13 soldiers were executed after confessing to a plot to overthrow Doe and his People's Redemption Council (P.R.C.). Last month five members of the P.R.C. itself, including Doe's deputy, Thomas Weh Syen, were shot after...
Perhaps the most significant signal of Doe's intentions came in July, when he promoted himself from master sergeant to general and commander in chief of Liberia's 5,000-man army. The promotion was accompanied by a crackdown on dissent. The twelve civilians in his 17-member Cabinet were drafted into the army with the rank of major, a move that made them subject to military discipline and curbed their ability to speak out in public. Most important, Doe forced a showdown with Weh Syen, his staunchest critic in the P.R.C., who had publicly lashed...
...boys back in the barracks think this crusty old sergeant got his paunch by putting away six-packs. The truth of the matter is, I was secretly sipping another kind of malt at Salt Lake City's Snelgrove Ice Cream store...
...Broken Dreams tarnished slowly for decades, declining by the late '60s and early '70s to the same sleazy fate as its East Coast counterpart, Times Square. Cleanup efforts partly succeeded, and now, on weekdays, some stretches feel like the downtown of a small city. But, says Police Sergeant Bob Rebhan, "I wouldn't go up Hollywood Boulevard on a weekend night without being armed...
...Violence has become an accepted way of life," says Sergeant J.J. Garcia. The slightest insult, real or imagined, provokes a mid-traffic surge for revenge. The protection of turf and machismo honor are the pretexts; baseball bats, screw drivers, knives, cheap guns and especially tire irons are the weapons. Sadly, passers-by are often the innocent victims of this remorseless violence...