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...Bush presidency about 1,100 Marines were beginning to come home. Besides redeeming Bush's pledge, the move was clearly intended to prod the United Nations to hurry up in creating a regular peacekeeping force to take over from the U.S.-led ad hoc troops. American Marine Colonel Fred Peck, a military spokesman in Mogadishu, hopefully suggested that U.S. troops could begin to pass authority to the U.N. as early...
...then there was the Marine Band, "The President's Own," as it is called. When Reagan once again trod the red ceremonial carpet, Colonel John Bourgeois, the band director, struck up The Ronald Reagan March. Reagan caught it and with eyes bright, straightened and gave the colonel a salute for everything that had been. Reagan and Bush walked one last time side by side in the majesty of power they created and now were ending. Then they moved off into memory...
...School in 1972, Sandy Berger was traveling with presidential candidate George McGovern as a speechwriter. When they landed in San Antonio for a rally, Berger caught a first glimpse of his future boss, bounding up the steps of the plane: a tall, striking young man, improbably clad in a Colonel Sanders white suit, who was serving as McGovern's Texas coordinator. Bill Clinton and Sandy Berger have been "real friends" ever since, says a senior Clinton aide. "You can see the affection when they're in the room together...
TALK ABOUT A SECURITY NIGHTMARE. IN THE FINAL sprint of a peripatetic presidency, George Bush arrived in Mogadishu just as armed thugs were returning to the streets. "I doubt if any American President has ever visited a nation in such turmoil and such a state of anarchy," said Colonel Fred Peck, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition. Bush waved off the threat with characteristic thumbs-up bravado, stating improbably, "It's perfectly safe...
...southwest of the capital, up to 200 leading members of the Harti clan, including religious leaders, businessmen and doctors, were reportedly dragged from their homes and shot during several nights of terror. The killing spree was said to have been ordered by Kismayu's de facto boss, the warlord Colonel Omar Jess, who belongs to the rival Ogadeni clan and is an ally of Aidid's. According to an American diplomat, Jess may have ordered the massacre to consolidate his control over the city before relief forces arrived in Kismayu...