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...flying high and fast -- both literally and symbolically. First he logged 8,000 miles from Washington to Somalia, where he greeted 1993 with troops he had dispatched there a month ago to relieve starvation. The President spent New Year's Eve in Mogadishu and journeyed the next day to Baidoa, in the heart of the famine zone. Then, without so much as returning to Washington to change his shirt, he winged north 3,700 miles to snowy Moscow. There, he and Boris Yeltsin were to sign a treaty that should accomplish the truly radical cut in long-range nuclear weapons...
...same, U.S. Marines stepped up security checks and erected razor-wire barriers around the sites Bush toured during his sweep through the capital, Baidoa and Bale Dogle. Troops also accelerated their search for concealed weapons...
...warlords, who might eventually rule? Oakley believes that elders of Somalia's numberless clans and subclans as well as religious leaders should be brought into the process. As evidence that this can be done, he points to Baidoa, in the center of the famine belt and a town that had been under Aidid's thumb. U.S. officials have organized town meetings attended by as many as 300 clan elders, representatives of women's groups and Islamic mullahs. Over the objections of Aidid's representatives, leaders at the meetings agreed to remove technicals from the town and set up subcommittees...
...cortege of armored vehicles parks in the undergrowth along the roadside. Nine hours will pass before Team Tiger begins the last leg of its 180-mile journey to Baidoa. Sotak waves to Marines passing by on the bed of a truck. "Those are the real grunts," he says. "When it rains, it's awful, and they can't take stuff like this with them." Sotak opens a St. Louis Cardinals bag holding his only sources of entertainment: a box with a chess set and a small electronic football simulation game...
Pictures can capture history, but in 1992 they also changed its course. From Baidoa to Los Angeles to Sarajevo, the power of extraordinary photos captured the world's attention and broke through to stir the individual conscience...