French-led evacuation takes foreigners from Liberia
Thursday, June 12, 2003
ABOARD THE FRENCH WARSHIP ORAGE -- Evacuees from 38 nations crowded aboard the rescue ship, some giddy with relief, others guilty over loved ones left behind -- a wildly disparate group of merchants, aid workers and missionaries, united only by their salvation from the gun-wielding thugs overrunning Liberia's capital.
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