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...been dumped in a mass grave alongside 27 other victims of a predawn coup d'état the previous weekend. Pockets of loyalist resistance remained; there was at least one fight between opposing military factions. For the most part, however, the new government, led by a natty master sergeant named Samuel Doe, 28, appeared to be in firm control...
...Sergeant Doe, now Africa's youngest strongman, became enraged at Tolbert during last year's rice riots. A brisk, jaunty, slightly built man, he is the son of an impoverished farmer from the small Krahn tribe. He left school after the eleventh grade and joined the army. Last year he took an advanced training course from a U.S. Army special forces detachment in Liberia. Like Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 33, who led a coup in neighboring Ghana last year, Doe has a flair for the dramatic. During his first TV address as head of state, he wore sunglasses...
...Iran. "I'm 100% for it," said Pat Lee of Falls Church, Va., wife of Hostage Gary Lee, a general services officer. "I don't think it will make that much difference, but it's the principle." Added Mary Lopez of Globe, Ariz., mother of Marine Sergeant James Lopez: "I'm not too happy, but I have to have faith in my government. What else can I hold...
...master sergeant seizes power...
Radio broadcasts from Monrovia identified the coup leader as Samuel Doe, 28, an obscure master sergeant in the Liberian army who called his new government the People's Redemption Council of the Armed Forces of Liberia. Doe declared that he had overthrown the Tolbert regime because of its "rampant corruption and continuous failure" to solve Liberia's problems. Mindful that Liberia has always been one of America's closest African allies, Doe asked for a meeting with U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Julius Walker. He told Walker that he was aware of America's "historic...