American evacuees leave Ivory Coast

Friday, September 27, 2002

YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast -- American schoolchildren flew to safety Thursday on the first evacuation plane out of the rebellion-torn Ivory Coast, while French troops launched a full-scale evacuation of frightened Westerners from a rebel-held city under threat of imminent government attack.

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