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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trials continued, the leader of the coup, Master Sergeant Samuel Kanyon Doe, 28, was settling in as head of state. Each day began with a flurry of announcements. He decreed, for example, that all members of the national football team would go on the government payroll, and that the date of the coup, April 12, would thenceforth be known as National Redemption Day. At week's end he imposed martial law. Several times a day he roared out of the executive mansion in his Mercedes limousine to visit schools, markets and other gathering places. Wherever he went, thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBERIA: Savage Hours | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

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