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...actively engaged -- getting back out promises to be worse. There is pronounced Somali resistance to turning the mission over to U.N. peacekeepers. Somalis feel that the U.N. team already in the country has been neither impartial nor adequate. They also nurse ill feelings toward U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali, who once had dealings with the ousted dictator Mohammed Siad Barre. "They practiced deceit, secrecy, deception and outright bribery," charges Mohammed Awale, an adviser to Aidid, "adding to the fragmentation of Somali society." Restoring the U.N.'s credibility may be a surprisingly tough part of the mission...
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...
...still smarting from the criticism that he was too slow to help the Iraqi Kurds in the aftermath of the Gulf War. He is also aggrieved that U.S. supplies airlifted to Mogadishu since August have been stuck in warehouses or stolen at gunpoint in the streets. Secretary- General Boutros-Ghali has made sharp references to the West's habit of ignoring Africa, and has demanded "a countrywide show of force...
...relationship became the first item of debate. Washington has consistently refused to entrust its soldiers to U.N. command, but this time Bush conceded a supervisory role to both Boutros-Ghali and the Security Council, not least because the President expects the U.N. to pick up where he leaves off. The Bush Administration would not have undertaken any deployment of its forces without firm assurances that blue helmets would replace the Americans in short order...