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...United Nations has been in the peacekeeping business for most of its 47 years, but never has it undertaken anything quite so ambitious. Beginning this week, the world body will put 36,000 military and civilian personnel on the ground in Yugoslavia and Cambodia, charged with meeting goals that extend far beyond keeping antagonists from each other's throats. The U.N.'s blue helmets are supposed to disarm and disband combatants -- many still seething over real and imagined grievances -- and prepare the way for the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Nor is that all. They are also supposed...
...civil war among religious and political clans, fought mainly by Christian and Muslim militiamen, Beirut became a synonym for savagery. Last week for the first time authorities put out an official estimate of the rivers of blood spilled through Lebanon and its 3.4 million population. The casualty toll, largely civilian: 144,240 people slain, 197,506 wounded and 17,415 missing. Most of the missing persons were abducted by rival militias, and are now presumed dead...
...strength in Chicago is among blacks. "He talks to our concerns," says Alderman Bobby Rush. "Tsongas is too detached, too ivory tower." What ethnic whites see as weakness is viewed as almost charming by some blacks. "Life is life," says Charliemae Towbridge, who heads the Chicago police department's civilian workers' union. "There isn't any one of us who can't relate to Clinton's eye for the ladies if he's being honest with himself. That's a fact...
...darkness just before midnight, columns of tanks and troop carriers rumbled into the streets of four Venezuelan cities last week, intent on overthrowing the civilian government. Paratroops and armored units in Caracas, the capital, converged on a nearby air base, the Miraflores presidential palace and La Casona, the official residence of President Carlos Andres Perez...
Coups fail more often than they succeed, and this one barely got rolling before it was halted. It was organized by a tightly knit group of middle-level officers -- lieutenant colonels, majors and captains -- and it gained no significant support from the generals or civilian power brokers. The big surprise was that it took place in Venezuela, where multiparty democracy has been the rule for more than 30 years. The last serious coup attempt was in 1962, and most observers thought the country had overcome the old habit of military intervention...