Word: ghali
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Should the U.S.-led troops also disarm the war bands? U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali says yes, but Powell calls disarmament only "one method that could be used" and adds that the troops can hardly round up "every last AK-47" in Somalia. So, might the warring clans create anarchy and famine again after the U.S.-U.N. troops leave? The hope is that the combat troops can pacify the country enough for a smaller, "regular" U.N. peacekeeping force to take over. Though the U.S. would like to begin pulling out by Bill Clinton's Inauguration Jan. 20, Secretary...
There is no agreement on whether the U.S.-led troops are only to guard supply routes or are to go out and disarm the thousands of ragtag fighters who are terrorizing the country. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali told the Security Council he wanted the intervention force to disarm clan fighters and confiscate their heavy weapons. Officials in Washington said only that they were considering various methods of taking weapons out of circulation, but there was no way all of them could be seized. Nor is January a realistic date for departure: it will be a month before...
...DISCOURAGINGLY REPETITIOUS REPORTS OF armed Somali warlords siphoning as much as 80% of the humanitarian relief supplies finally got to George Bush. The outgoing U.S. President proposed to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali that American military forces be dispatched to ensure that the food and medicine reach the starving population. Two thousand U.S. Marines aboard amphibious ships in the Indian Ocean are available for the job, and % Pentagon sources say an additional 15,000 or more would be ready, provided that the U.N. Security Council approves the initiative this week. Somali strongman General Mohammed Farrah Aidid, who has hamstrung...
...cause of famine in Somalia is not the lack of food, but rather the problems with food distribution. Roving gangs often intercept food before it can reach the areas where it is needed immediately. A convoy of several thousand armed troops, similar to what U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is proposing, would ensure that food is delivered quickly and efficiently...
...deaths gave new urgency to plans announced last week by U.N. Secretary- General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to increase as much as fivefold the strength of the peacekeeping force. The new troops, to be supplied by NATO countries other than the United States, would be deployed to protect U.N. convoys and help get detainees on both sides out of the war zones. For its part, Washington praised Croatia for interdicting an Iranian plane carrying weapons intended for Bosnian Muslim forces, and also urged a ban on military flights, to thwart Serbian bombing runs in Bosnia...