Word: lawlessness
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...busy Mogadishu street and snatched the prescription sunglasses from his face last February, the 33-year-old native of Puerto Rico wheeled and shot the boy in the stomach, also wounding a bystander. He claimed self-defense, arguing that the constant threat of attack from brazen youths in the lawless Somali capital had unnerved him. A court-martial found Conde guilty of aggravated assault, stripped him of his rank and imposed a $1,706 fine. Twelve thousand U.S. servicemen remain in Somalia, though Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell, who visited them last week, says most should depart...
...especially hard; it is there, and in the remote villages beyond, that most of the U.S.'s humanitarian mission will be carried out. It is there too that the conflict between the narrowly conceived objective of safeguarding food convoys and the larger needs of rebuilding a shattered and lawless nation will be played...
...pipeline to feed the starving, not to wage war on the country's armed gangs or impose political solutions. The Somalis, however, expect nothing short of a Marshall Plan. They want the Americans to stay long enough to fix not only their diet, but also their broken government and lawless society. Between the objective and the dream lies much room for disappointment and misunderstanding...
...plan to divide Somalia into four sectors aims to wrest control of the country from brigands in lawless Mogadishu, where last week a ship loaded with 8,000 tons of food was forced to pay a daily "security fee" of $4,000 until off-loading costs were negotiated. An additional 7,000 tons of food is held hostage in warehouses. But the airlift is only a stopgap. The cure is an end to bloodshed and the beginning of reconciliation...
Quayle was in San Francisco, market-testing a line of traditional-values rhetoric for more elaborate use as the presidential campaign progresses. The Los Angeles riots were still flickering on the edges of everyone's mind. In a speech before the Commonwealth Club, Quayle came down hard on "lawless social anarchy" -- as opposed, presumably, to lawful anarchy. He spoke of "the breakdown of family structure, personal responsibility and social order in too many areas of our society," of "a welfare ethos that impedes individual efforts to move ahead in society . . ." He acknowledged the "terrible problem with race and racism," adding...