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Article: LIBERIANS FEAR FOR LIVES OF LOVED ONES DENVERITES' FAMILIES TRAPPED IN CIVIL WAR.(Local)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- June 17, 1996
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Byline: Robert Jackson Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer
Musu Brooks is the lucky one.
Last month, she heard from her brother and grandmother, trapped in Liberia's bloody civil war.
But Rosslyn Jones and Roosevelt Toh are not that fortunate. Jones has not heard from her 50-year-old mother and 70-year-old grandmother since she last talked with them April 2, and there has been no contact with any of the 16 members of Toh's immediate family for two months.
Brooks, who moved to Denver from the town of Virgina, Liberia, seven years ago, said her 25-year-old brother, Momoh, called asking for money to get him and her 75-year-old paralyzed ...