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Article: CAPITAL ATTACK 2 LIBERIAN CUTTERS SINK AS REBELS INFILTRATE MONROVIA.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- July 21, 1990
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Byline: Associated Press
Rebels overran most of northern Monrovia on Friday, pushing several hundred remaining government troops into a narrow strip of land on both sides of President Samuel Doe's executive mansion.
Witnesses reported many government casualties, and shipping sources said two Liberian coast guard cutters were sunk in the port by gunfire.
The United States said it would not intervene to halt the 2-day-old rebel offensive, the latest drive in the 7- month-old civil war.
The rebels, led by former Doe aide Charles Taylor, captured Monrovia's 2-square-mile port area in the northern suburb of Bushrod Island. They advanced ...