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...Some cost-cutting tips for next time: There's a very serviceable Camp Terrorism scene in Patriot Games (1992), and some great Sudan footage in Khartoum (1966). Heck, I'm sure Pfizer would have let us blow up its factory, if only to drive up the price of Viagra. With a little help from Industrial Light and Magic (pro bono for Hollywood Bill, I'm sure), it all would have looked fine...
...time Operation Lifeline grew alarmed enough at the escalating shortages in mid-April to press Khartoum to reopen southern air strips and drop zones, it did not have enough chartered planes to make deliveries: it had just one C-130 Hercules, which can carry 16 tons of cargo, and two smaller Buffalos. At the end of April, the Sudanese government grudgingly gave clearance for three more chartered C-130s. Soon four big Ilyushin-76s (cargo capacity: 32 tons) are also to be allowed in. With this beefed-up air service, deliveries will soon reach 10,000 tons a month. That...
...there has been vicious warfare on and off since Sudan's independence in 1956. Africa's largest country is really two: an Islamic, Arabized north and a Christian, animist and African south. The government in Khartoum is headed by Lieut. General Omar Hassan al-Bashir, but the real power is Hassan al-Turabi, a radical scholar who leads the National Islamic Front and is intent on enforcing Muslim law on the land. On the battlefield, the shifting coalition led by John Garang's SPLA has been successful recently, opening a new front in the northeast. Officially the rebels are fighting...
While the armies struggle, the people are trampled by wave after wave of marauders. Khartoum has been buying off rebel leaders from the south and turning them loose on their own people. Another scourge is the Popular Defense Force militia--Arab horsemen recruited as army auxiliaries who also raid southern villages, stealing cattle, shooting young men and kidnapping women and children...
...short cease-fire to give food shipments free access. The pause does not guarantee either that enough food to end the famine will get through all the unruly rebel factions and bandits or that talks on a more permanent peace will get under way in earnest. The regime in Khartoum, weary of a war that is costing $1 million a day, and increasingly unpopular as it seeks to draft the nation's reluctant youth into the fruitless fight, is ready to talk about autonomy for the south; Garang, with visions of victory, refuses...