WORLD IN BRIEF : LIBERIA : Rebels Encounter Stiff Resistance
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Liberia’s enthusiastic but poorly trained rebels, who swept easily to the gates of the capital in recent fighting, are now meeting stiff resistance from government troops. Rebel leader Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia has been bogged down for the past week in its attempt to capture Scheffelin military camp, 18 miles from Monrovia. It is President Samuel K. Doe’s last military stronghold outside the capital, but it has been cut off by rebel forces attacking on two fronts.
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