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Transcript: U.S. Maintaining Low Profile in Liberia
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
- Article date:
- April 27, 1996
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Liberia's cease-fire is now in its ninth day, and officials fear an
outbreak of cholera in its capital city of Monrovia. Critics say the
U.S. waited too long before getting involved in the six-year civil
war.
NEAL CONAN, Host: I'm Neal Conan. Coming up on Weekend Edition,
the link between the origins of Western civilization and the American
family farm, but, first, the cease-fire in Liberia, now in its ninth
day, is shaky, and Liberia's political crisis is being compounded
by a medical one, a recent outbreak of cholera, which the World Health
Organization fears could endanger large numbers of people living in
the capital, Monrovia.
The evacuation of Americans ...