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TEANECK, N.J. -- When Henry Hali's children were young, he had a rule about Christmas gifts: no toy guns. "People with guns, it makes me very nervous," he said in an interview at his home here. "These things were not in our household."
His children eventually saw many real guns while living with their mother in the West African nation of Liberia. They saw small boys fire large weapons during a civil war that lasted 14 years and killed at least 200,000 people. The war ended in 2003, and conditions have improved. A new president of Liberia was elected last month.See the full content of this document
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Penn St. Star Seeks Biggest Victory
These days, the Hali family is prospering in the United States. Most prominent is Henry Hali's son Tamba, a defensive end for Penn State who was named to several all-American football teams.
But one important detail is unfinished. Hali's mother, Rachel Keita, who never married Henry Hali, remains in Liberia and wants to rejoin her c...See the full content of this document
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