Paranoid or what?

International pressure upsets President Taylor but brings peace no nearer

With so many peace initiatives competing for the international community's scarce resources, Liberia's peace process needs to keep up its momentum, and President Charles Taylor's critics need to speed things up, before Nigeria gets embroiled in elections and the United States and Britain get stuck into Iraq.

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