Liberian Rebels Seek Summit Talks
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LOME, Togo — Rebels fighting a five-nation West African peacekeeping force in Liberia have called for a summit of all 16 regional heads of state to end the civil war there, Togolese officials said Sunday.
Tom Woewiyu, spokesman for the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, urged Togo President Gnassingbe Eyadema to back the call for a meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), they said.
The rebel group, led by Charles Taylor, opposes foreign intervention in their 8-month-old war to topple Liberian President Samuel K. Doe. They attacked soldiers from Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone and Guinea who landed in Monrovia, the capital, with orders to end the blood bath. Doe and breakaway rebel faction leader Prince Johnson have welcomed the ECOWAS peacekeepers.
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