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MOGADISHU WAS A PRELIMINARY; BAIDOA WAS the real thing. Some 70 trucks, jeeps and armored vehicles carried U.S. Marines and French Foreign Legionnaires into that town, in the heart of Somalia's famine zone, last Wednesday, as helicopter gunships buzzed overhead. The show of force was meant to tell armed...
The disarmament issue presents a central dilemma for the U.S. If the rifles and grenades and artillery pieces are not stripped from the land, the streets will again become corridors of death as soon as the Marines leave. Already unintimidated armed thugs are resurfacing in many areas. There is a...
Another fatality may be baseball's unique antitrust exemption, which a U.S. Senate panel, in separate hearings, was threatening to revoke. But would a lifting of baseball's monopoly be enough to stir sufficient rowdy capitalist competition to save the sport? The owners have made the game such a tragicomic...
Foreign policy has leapfrogged to the top. In Somalia, the Marines are moving more slowly than expected to extend their security zone. Relief workers in the hinterlands are clamoring for rescue from attacks by armed gangs. At the U.N., Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali made new demands on the U.S...
THE MOST FEARSOME WEAPONS CONFRONTING U.S. MARINES in Somalia are the 480 TOW ANTITANK MISSILES and the 75 81-mm mortars that Washington delivered to the Somali military in the 1980s. To prevent local warlords and brigands from turning the arms against the Americans, the Pentagon has quietly dispatched Special...