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...Isoventionism, Part II After two days of intense talks between Robert Oakley, President Clinton's new envoy in Somalia, and aides to General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, forces loyal to Aidid released Michael Durant, the American helicopter pilot they had held for 11 days, as well as a Nigerian peacekeeper held captive since last month. President Clinton and Aidid both claimed that no deal had been made for the prisoners' release, although the move coincided with a new willingness on the part of Oakley and Clinton to include Aidid's faction in efforts toward a political solution to Somalia's problems...
...several steps ahead of his superiors and violates just about every other rule of the road for diplomats in the U.S. foreign service. Yet within four days of his arrival in Mogadishu last week, Robert Oakley had succeeded in shrugging off America's preoccupation with capturing clan leader Mohammed Farrah Aidid, arranged for the release of two hostages and hammered out a tentative cease-fire. Not a bad week for a man who, if the State Department handed out speeding tickets to freebooting statesmen, would have spent much of his 34-year-career in traffic court. His style places...
...ROAD TO AIDID RUNS THROUGH GEORGIA, EVENTUALLY Washington -- When Jimmy Carter visited the White House last month, he carried a message from Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid of his willingness to cooperate with an investigation into the killings of U.N. peacekeepers. Since Somalia wasn't a front-burner issue then, President Clinton filed the tip away but asked National Security Adviser Anthony Lake to debrief Carter at some . point. That point wasn't reached until after the Oct. 3 attack that killed 18 U.S. soldiers. Lake flew to Plains last Thursday to meet with Carter...
...gifted young writers, which means that he’s also really young (and seriously good at writing). Oh and did we mention... he used to be a professional skateboarder? FM sat down with this mastermind to talk about his new collection, thrashing, and making films with Farrah Fawcett. 1. Fifteen Minutes (FM): How did the idea for “Naming the World” come about?Bret A. Johnston (BJ): An editor approached me about doing it, and I thought it was a wonderful idea. When that editor couldn’t make it happen, I went...
...neglected or abused every 36 seconds. “Each of us can say every day that I care and that I’m willing to serve,” Edelman said in her speech. “She was a phenomenal orator,” said Farrah J. Mateen, a research fellow at the Harvard Medical School. “She exposed statistics that I hadn’t realized that changed the way I think about this country.” The lecture is named after Robert Coles ’50, who is a professor...