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MOVING CAUTIOUSLY INTO TERRITORY CONTROLLED by clan militias and trigger-happy bandits, the first armed U.N. forces arrived in Somalia to guard relief shipments. U.S. planes flew in 60 troops, the advance team from a 500-man Pakistani battalion expected to arrive this week. Their initial assignment will be to secure the airport and harbor of Mogadishu, the capital, so food supplies can flow safely...
...Battalion-Size Musical Force...
They have lifted their voices in sacred and secular song ever since their wagon trains pulled up to the Great Salt Lake in the summer of 1847. That once small choir soon became one of the world's finest battalion-size forces (325 singers), reason enough for Sony Music to reissue some of the MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR'S top hits. The five-CD set includes hymns, Civil War songs and American standards. The choir's ringing harmonies and bright tones are perfectly suited to chorales (Sheep May Safely Graze, with its heavenly shifting of voices) or patriotic marches (The Caissons...
...technical team will arrive in Mogadishu to assess the needs for a return to peace; 50 cease-fire observers from 10 nations are already in the capital. But the U.N. will not begin distribution of food and aid without the security provided by a 500-man Pakistani battalion, on standby since April. So far General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, one of two rivals destroying the country they would govern, has balked at accepting armed blue helmets...
...anger, his politicization and his activism, McDade embodies the experience of many of the country's 10 million adult gay men. They feel they have been living through a war, watching comrades fall by the battalion. During the dozen years of the AIDS epidemic, they have witnessed the premature death of virtually a generation of leaders, role models, neighbors and friends. While some gay men have been touched by unexpected compassion from heterosexual acquaintances, a majority have been embittered by what they see as widespread hostility or neglect. They overwhelmingly believe that government at all levels has scorned and abandoned...