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News Room – Full Article
IDEX Online – Jun 13, 2004
Despite being sympathetic to Liberia's catastrophic economic situation, a UN panel said in a recent report the country's “tenuous” civil authority, backed by an “unpredictable” security situation, made lifting sanctions risky and unrealistic. The recommendations of the panel are likely to be adopted by the UN Security Council. “Disarmament is progressing but there is a strong possibility that factions may have cached weapons either within Liberia or in neighboring countries” such as the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the panel said in its report. “As a result, regional stability continues to be a subject of concern. ” Liberia has seen an uncertain peace since the flight into exile last August of former president Charles Taylor, although some areas are still not under the control of a 15,000-strong UN peacekeeping force. Trade sanctions were first imposed in 2001 to force Taylor to end his support for the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) running amok in neighboring Sierra Leone. Timber sanctions were added in May 2003 in a move to pressure Liberia's three warring factions to end their war.

For the record
The Observer – Jun 13, 2004
‘Mercenaries in coup plot’ (News, last week) on South African mercenaries working in Iraq said that Deon Gouws was killed in a bomb blast, while Francis Strydom was seriously injured. In fact Mr Gouws was injured while Mr Strydom died.

From the Ground Up
Washington Post – Jun 13, 2004
Nearly all the wars that have broken out since 1989 are not clashes of civilizations. Rather, they represent a failure by weak societies to attain civilization. In Somalia, Haiti, Cambodia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Congo and East Timor, that failure has forced Western intervention. Nation building has indeed become a pressing challenge of the times. The first essay here teases out the irony of this development. At the end of the Cold War, the collapse of communist big-statism was greeted as a victory for the Reagan-Thatcher faith in free markets and small government. But the ensuing 15 years have seen the pendulum swing back again: There’s been a renewed appetite for the idea that government should be at least strong, if not necessarily big.

STREETSCAPES/Costas Machlouzarides; A Surprising Architect Of the…
New York Times – Jun 13, 2004
Machlouzarides says he believes it was the first such use. It’s ”100 percent parking space,” he says. In 1962, he received the commission for the Sierra Leone Pavilion at the 1964 New York World’s Fair, where he built a group of tentlike structures of nominally tropical design in plywood covered with a white plastic. His next project was an alteration of an old movie house at 124th Street and Seventh Avenue, occupied by what became known as the Greater Refuge Temple. His housekeeper belonged to the church and told him it was seeking an architect. In his design, he scooped out the interior of the old theater just as if it was a Halloween pumpkin and inserted a sweeping white space of curves and domes that looked more like a Lincoln Center concert hall than a Harlem church. In 1967, he designed one of his signature works, the memorable Church of the Crucifixion, at 149th Street and Convent Avenue.