World IN BRIEF : LIBERIA : Talks to Resume on Ending Civil War
From Times staff and Wire reports
Peace talks in Liberia’s six-month civil war are to resume today in Freetown, Sierra Leone, a week after breaking up in deadlock. There is little hope that the talks will succeed unless President Samuel K. Doe resigns, rebel observers said. The leader of the government delegation, however, said he expects a settlement. “We have come to make peace, and that is going to happen,” Information Minister J. Emmanuel Bowier said. Meanwhile, the government said it captured 79 rebels at the Firestone rubber plantation.
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