The World - News from Sept. 7, 1988
Liberia has charged three men, including two Americans, with treason for allegedly plotting to overthrow the government and kill President Samuel K. Doe. Named in the indictment were James Henry Bush, 40, an ex-U.S. Army sergeant from Baltimore; Curtis Elmer Williams, 45, of Jersey City, N.J., and Mike Jackson, a Liberian who lived in exile in neighboring Ivory Coast until his arrest in July. Five other people involved in the alleged coup plot, including Liberian Maj. Gen. J. Nicholas Podier, Doe’s former deputy and the plot’s reported mastermind, were killed in a July 13 clash with Liberian security forces, the indictment said.
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