Foreigners crowd airport for flights out of Ivory Coast

Sunday, November 14, 2004

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast -- Frightened Westerners -- many of them longtime residents of this former African economic success story -- piled into buses, boats and planes Saturday as a French-run evacuation built, despite government promises to protect the expatriates from a surge of anti-foreigner violence.

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