Liberia Quiet After Revolt
President Samuel K. Doe rode victoriously through the deserted streets of the capital today, one day after crushing an attempted coup that Liberia said included mercenaries from Cuba and Sierra Leone.
Justice Minister Jenkins Scott said 10 rebels and five government soldiers were killed in Tuesday’s attempt to topple Doe, 33, who came to power in a bloody coup April 12, 1980.
Lt. Gen. Henry Dubar, military commander of the west African nation founded by freed U.S. slaves in 1847, said former armed forces chief Thomas Quiwonkpa led the attempted coup against Doe with Cuban and Sierra Leonean mercenaries.
“Some of the Cubans” were arrested and a Czechoslovakian weapon and “secret documents” about the plot were seized, Dubar said at a news conference in the Defense Department.
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