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...since the government was overthrown 19 months ago. The survivors in this mostly desert land are victims of a famine that threatens the lives of 1.8 million of Somalia's nearly 6 million people. After months of internal resistance and foreign indifference, aid is finally coming. A U.S. food airlift announced in mid-August has just begun to bring relief, as officials struggle to distribute supplies safely amid the political anarchy and prevent even worse fighting over the food itself...
...Mississippi river valleys were surprisingly successful strikes, finding people in neighborhoods where they lived, not at airports or pre-packaged arenas. Reporters from local television stations could hitch a bus ride for a hundred bucks or so a day, compared with more than $1,000 on a political airlift. Nor were the local news spots edited to 90 seconds a day -- more like 90 minutes. Engelberg's original idea was to steal the settings for Bush's family-values pitch before the President could arrive. The buses fit modest front-yard dimensions. The people flowed easily and eagerly...
...have reportedly rotted away on the docks or been dumped into the harbor. U.N. officials said the planned contingent would number about 500 troops and could be deployed within two or three weeks. The U.S. has ( offered to fly the troops to Africa, and announced plans for its own airlift of additional food aid. On Saturday the U.N. began moving food to the interior. Private humanitarian groups applauded the new efforts, but were worried about the arrival of the troops, which British relief administrator Mark Radford warned "could create additional security problems, and that would be disastrous...
...country from brigands in lawless Mogadishu, where last week a ship loaded with 8,000 tons of food was forced to pay a daily "security fee" of $4,000 until off-loading costs were negotiated. An additional 7,000 tons of food is held hostage in warehouses. But the airlift is only a stopgap. The cure is an end to bloodshed and the beginning of reconciliation...
YUGOSLAVIA. No real debate here. Both call it a multinational and mainly European responsibility. Both support the Sarajevo airlift, but that is just a Band-Aid. Neither man has offered a plan for bringing the carnage in the splintering republics to an end, or a clear policy on how to manage the dangerous separatist wave sweeping the world. The Clinton camp's critique is mainly hindsight: Bill wouldn't have held on to the sanctity of Yugoslav unity so long, Bill wouldn't have signaled Serbia that the U.S. would not resist its aggression as the Bush Administration did, Bill...