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Title: Liberia: holding on to tenuous peace: war-scarred country seeks new start in face of enormous social problems.(World)
Author: Chris Herlinger
Publication: National Catholic Reporter (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 28, 2003
Publisher: National Catholic Reporter
Volume: 40 Issue: 6 Page: 12(3)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Michael Kpakala Francis, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Monrovia, is a friendly and informal man, easily given to greeting a visitor with a smile and laugh. But an easygoing affability barely conceals a steel core--a core firmly in evidence when he was asked recently about the twin subjects of deposed Liberian President Charles Taylor and the Liberian church.
Taylor--former head of state, warlord, looter of the state treasury and, according to popular rumor, even murderer--is almost too easy a target for Francis, who dismisses his one-time nemesis as "diabolical," a "psychopath," a "pathological liar" and a "first-class con artist" who, tragically for Liberia, believed his own delusions.
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