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Roger Mudd learned the news only moments before it was officially announced last February: Dan Rather, the handsome, rat-a-tat-tat 60 Minutes correspondent, had been chosen to succeed Walter Cronkite as anchorman on the CBS Evening News. Until that instant, Mudd, 52, had been sure that the job would eventually be his. He had, after all, been filling in for Cronkite on weekends and vacations since the late '60s. Stunned and humiliated, Mudd took a paid leave of absence and in June began talking to rival networks ABC and NBC. "I have regarded myself as a news...
...HOLLOW ROOM vibrated with the sounds of the streets of Tehran. His mind walked the streets of Cambridge, footsteps echoing. Perini's boys were digging up the Square, rat tat tat. He heard the brutality inflicted on the helpless pavement, and yelled for them to stop. They wouldn't, so he shivered and screamed at the cranes, "Louder, louder!" The noise persisted. He rolled over to swing apple juice...
...worry, we'll kill every one of them." On a beach in the capital of Monrovia, the new military rulers of Liberia last week executed 13 members of the civilian government of President William Tolbert, who had been killed in a coup d'état ten days earlier. Among the witnesses at the savage ceremony was TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White, who sent the following report on the first days of the new regime...
...crowd of angry Liberians shouted insults and hurled rocks last week at the body of their assassinated President, William Tolbert, which had been dumped in a mass grave alongside 27 other victims of a predawn coup d'état the previous weekend. Pockets of loyalist resistance remained; there was at least one fight between opposing military factions. For the most part, however, the new government, led by a natty master sergeant named Samuel Doe, 28, appeared to be in firm control...
...year existence, the Republic of Liberia had never experienced a coup d'état, a remarkable record given the turbulent politics of West Africa. Last weekend a group of noncommissioned officers and Liberian National Guardsmen conducted a bold dawn raid on the palatial executive mansion in the capital city of Monrovia. Their target: William R. Tolbert Jr., 66, Liberia's President and the current chairman of the Organization of African Unity. According to one account, Tolbert was shot in the face and killed. His wife Victoria and members of the Cabinet, the judiciary and the legislature were seized...