U.S. Is Asked to Help End Interior Fighting
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From Times Wire Reports
Liberia’s president asked the United States to help stop clashes that are raging in the countryside despite a peace deal and urged West African peacekeepers to accelerate their deployment.
President Moses Blah said U.S. Ambassador John W. Blaney had agreed to try to contact rebels in hopes of engineering a true cease-fire in the interior.
The peacekeepers have in effect brought peace to the capital, Monrovia, but clashes have been reported elsewhere.
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