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SOMALIA, A SICKLE-shaped expanse on the Horn of Africa, stretches across an unforgiving desert, arid and commanding. For centuries nomads have crossed and recrossed the territory in search of food and water. Akin in language and religion, this homogeneous people should have been destined to live in unity, without the tribal strife that tears apart other African countries. But limited natural resources and internal disputes have historically kept stability at a distance, and the clans of Somalia have regularly battled one another into a state of anarchy...
...persist. Few Americans will argue out loud that helping starving Somalis is a bad idea. And if there is to be a U.N.-centered world order, the U.S. should be willing to send its soldiers into humanitarian efforts as well as those that serve national interests, such as Desert Storm. But for this kind of military intervention on behalf of suffering people to become an accepted pattern in the world community, the test case must succeed. If the U.S. gets stuck in the anarchy of Somalia, or if it departs in haste, leaving renewed chaos and starvation behind, such principled...
Bagnoud was a Swiss helicopter pilot and relief worker who died in his mid-20s during a 1986 helicopter accident over the African desert. After his death, a Swiss charitable foundation was established in his name...
...gravity. Welcome to Lake of the Clouds, an enchanted spot of earth that has never seen the sun or felt the morning dew. Carved out of solid rock nearly 1 million years ago, this bewitching chamber lies 300 m (1,000 ft.) below the floor of the New Mexican desert at the lowest point in Carlsbad Cavern...
...geography is different. In the Sinai, 250 km of desert separate Israel from that part of Egypt west of Suez. The widest area that separates us from the Syrians on the Golan is 23 km. I have said that I am ready to add a territorial dimension to the negotiations, but I don't want to negotiate the size of it before I know that Syria is ready for a peace that is not conditional on a comprehensive peace. We always strive for a comprehensive peace, but it has to be built on bilateral bridges. If we do not reach...