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...beastly killing spree had spurred Washington and London into brokering a flawed peace-at-any-price, handing Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front amnesty, four seats in the government and control over the country's rich diamond mines. In return, the rebels were supposed to disarm and behave. Instead, the amnesty emboldened them; they sold smuggled diamonds for fresh weapons; they got ready to grab power. The slapdash pact assumed Sankoh actually wanted peace, trusting in the good faith of a brutal tyrant...
...didn't, and the big powers were unwilling to provide men or money to police the pact themselves, calling instead for an "African solution" from nations not up to the job. The U.N. cobbled together a ragtag force from some ill-equipped and ill-trained Third World armies that finally trickled in in January. There was money for just 8,700 of the 11,100 troops authorized. Only one battalion of Jordanian soldiers and a 200-man rapid-reaction force from India arrived fully armed to fight. The U.N. had to order 4,000 helmets for troops who came without...
Born 63 years ago in the southern town of Bo, the ambitious Sankoh was too poor to attend secondary school and instead joined the army, then run by Britain, Sierra Leone's colonial master till 1961. However, he reached only the rank of corporal and was assigned to radio duty. He was further embittered by serving as part of a U.N. peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a civil war that saw the assassination of that country's leader, Patrice Lumumba, whom Sankoh admired. After a brief and unhappy stint as a cameraman in Britain, Sankoh supported...
...Instead, suggests Carl Swisher, a dating expert from the Berkeley (Calif.) Geochronology Center and co-author of the Science paper, wanderlust may simply have been part of H. erectus' personality. The species evolved some 2 million years ago, and armed with a larger brain and body than its predecessor, H. habilis, "it was probably changing its range and its living habitat almost immediately," says Swisher. H. erectus also developed a more carnivorous appetite and probably moved to follow game. "As soon as they lost this dependency on vegetation," says Alan Walker, a Pennsylvania State University paleoanthropologist, "they changed their lifestyle...
Booker lives in Brick Towers, one of the largest low-income housing complexes in Newark, N.J. When he graduated from law school in 1997, instead of taking a job with a six-digit salary, Booker successfully ran for city councilman in a place that has perhaps the gloomiest reputation on the East Coast. Newark for years has ranked among the worst cities in the country for violent crime and poverty. And yet, Booker says with a straight face, "this city is the land of milk and honey"--only minutes from the wealth and culture of New York City. "The tragedy...