Word: war-torn
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...What is the international community waiting for? The final disaster?" FREDERIC BARDOU, country director of Action Against Hunger, on the lack of international intervention in war-torn Liberia as civilian food supplies run short...
...Number of U.S. Marines to arrive in Monrovia, Liberia's war-torn capital...
...GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY. The spaghetti western reached its pinnacle form in this classic directed by Sergio Leone. Set in the war-torn American Midwest, the film follows three top notch gunslingers on their search for a lost treasure. The trouble is, they aren’t working together. Clint Eastwood, in a reprisal role from A Fistful of Dollars, plays the Good: a gruff silent type with at least a shred of principle. Eli Wallach plays the Bad, a cruel devil named Angel Eyes who’ll do anything...
...past month Liberians have been burying new dead and bandaging new wounded as they wait for a promised peacekeeping force to arrive. Their hopes were raised Wednesday as a group of ten Nigerian officers toured the war-torn capital Monrovia to assess conditions for deployment of a battalion of troops. Elsewhere, the regional security organization ECOWAS announced that a contingent of 1,500 Nigerian troops would arrive in Liberia early next week to start the peacekeeping mission, and appealed to Liberia's president, indicted warlord Charles Taylor, to keep his word and take up asylum in Nigeria within three days...
...Charles Taylor, Liberian President, indicted by the U.N. for war crimes, trying to set terms for when he will leave his war-torn nation...