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Article: Restoring Liberia.(NATION)(INSIDE THE BELTWAY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2003
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Byline: John McCaslin, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Restoring Liberia
Just a short walk from the National Cathedral in Washington sits the Liberian ambassador's residence on Fulton Street NW, albeit nobody's been home for several years.
In fact, the residence has sat empty for so long that neighborhood residents and even a church have tried to purchase the vacant but valuable piece of property. But even without an ambassador to the United States, the Liberian government has refused to sell.
Now, at the strangest of times, amid all the turmoil in the civil war-torn country, as President Bush is demanding that Liberian President Charles Taylor ...