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...warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid a criminal it intended to arrest, American troops spearheaded the effort to seize him. But then his forces killed 18 U.S. service members last October, prompting Clinton to announce that all American troops would go home within six months. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. provided a jet to fly Aidid to a meeting of clan chiefs trying to cobble together a new regime. The flip-flops angered Italy, which also had troops in Somalia. "The U.S. didn't know how to calibrate the use of force," says Italian Defense Minister Fabio Fabbri. "They used too little...
...deal began in 1987, when Garrett, an engine company based in Phoenix, Arizona, beat out rivals from France, Britain and Canada for a contract to supply engines to Nanchang Aircraft, a Chinese government-owned manufacturer. Nanchang said it needed the engines for a light military jet trainer, the K-8, that was destined to be sold abroad. In November 1991, the U.S. Commerce Department, which had been moving aggressively to promote American trade by cutting through export barriers, quietly dropped national security controls originally imposed during the cold war, allowing the engines to be shipped to China without an export...
...deputy Mitch Wallerstein signed off on the deal. Wallerstein circulated a memo predicting that AlliedSignal's sales to China might soar to 2,000 engines. The company quickly disavowed Wallerstein's numbers as unrealistic after critics within the Department of Defense began questioning China's need for so many jet trainers...
...bloodshed began after Presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, both Hutus, died when their plane crashed at Kigali airport almost two weeks ago. A military team from Belgium, the former colonial power in Rwanda, has concluded that the jet was shot down with rockets belonging to the Rwandan army -- most likely by the presidential guard angered at plans to include Tutsis in the government. The 600-strong guard began murdering all the Tutsis they could find. The army soon joined in, as much to loot as to kill...
...designated a "safe area" by the U.N., was close to collapse after heavy attack from Bosnian Serb forces when U.N. officials announced that a cease-fire was likely that would leave the Serbs with most of the land seized in their recent offensive. On Saturday a British Sea Harrier jet, flying under nato command, was shot down as it searched for a Serb target. Earlier in the week, U.S. aircraft bombed Serb positions and imposed a momentary quiet on the area. By the weekend, however, Serb forces were reportedly two miles from Gorazde's center...