The World - News from Sept. 27, 1985
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Liberian authorities have released former Finance Minister Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf after she had served only two weeks of a 10-year sentence for sedition, Liberian television reported. Johnson-Sirleaf, 46, who was minister of finance until Sgt. Samuel K. Doe took power in 1980, was convicted of the charges Sept. 13 after she called the Liberian authorities “idiots” during a July speech in Philadelphia. She also charged Doe with mismanagement of the economy.
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