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...know the story of how the Clampett clan, after discovering oil in the middle of their Ozark swamp, signs a billion dollar deal and moves to Beverly Hills. Jed Clampett, played by Jim Varney of dubious "Ernest Goes to Camp" fame, decides his daughter, Elly May (Erika Eleniak), who spends her spare time wrestling bears, needs some refinement. So he takes her, Cousin Jethro, and Grannie to Beverly Hills to find a wife who will be a mother to Elly May. Oh, the daring...
...Jethro is made vice president of the bank. Ever-efficient bank executive Miss Jane Hathaway and her uptight boss Mr. Drysdale, played respectively by the usually talented Lily Tomlin and Dabney Coleman, fit in so well with the Clampetts that they might as well be adopted into the clan...
...Italy, Belgium, Jordan and Tunisia are already talking about pulling out even before the U.S. does. Aidid could smile ingratiatingly until the pullout and then launch a new drive for control. Then Somalia could plunge into precisely the disasters Clinton foresaw resulting from an immediate American bug-out: renewed clan warfare, anarchy, brutality and starvation...
American troops back from Somalia say they weren't surprised by the physical hardships: poisonous snakes and malarial mosquitoes, wilting heat and foul water. What came as a shock was the sniper fire against bulldozer drivers trying to clear roads for food convoys. And the viciousness of the clan warfare they found themselves caught up in from the moment they arrived. And the sight of their comrades going home in coffins...
...first welcomed the Americans became resentful when they realized that the U.S. would not simply wipe out the warlords who were terrorizing them. At the same time, soldiers found themselves in mortal danger whenever they seemed to be taking sides in even the pettiest disputes among rival clans. Sergeant Kevin Anderson, a military-police officer, recalls sitting by in frustration as clan-vs.-clan arguments turned into free-for- alls. "Pretty soon," he says, "rocks would be flying back and forth from these David-and-Goliath slings they used. Then someone would go get a small- caliber weapon. Then someone...