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Article: U.S. ENDS STANDOFF IN LIBERIA LEADER'S ETHNIC RIVAL HUSTLED OUT OF COUNTRY.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- September 26, 1998
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Byline: Matthew Bunce Reuters
MONROVIA, Liberia -- The United States flew President Charles Taylor's ethnic Krahn rival Roosevelt Johnson out of Liberia on Friday, ending a tense standoff that began after he took refuge at the U.S. embassy nearly a week ago.
The U.S. State Department said Johnson, one of Taylor's foes in a seven-year civil war, which ended with multiparty elections in 1997, traveled by helicopter to Sierra Leone on his way to an unspecified third country in West Africa.
Taylor's government accuses Johnson of treason, murder, rape and kidnapping.
U.S. State Department spokesman James Rubin said in Washington that ...