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...strict orders not to shoot anyone, just to raise the level of fear.'' The hard-core supposed rioters totaled at most 200, and might even have been outnumbered by the 193 U.S. and 25 Canadian military personnel aboard the ship. But the troops were not on a combat mission; they were engineers and specialists who were supposed to repair roads, hospitals and schools and train a new Haitian police force. Some carried only sidearms, some no guns at all. Clinton decided he could not risk sending them ashore and ordered the Harlan County to pull up anchor and steam away...
...cane, Aidid congratulated the U.S. on having ''decided to address its past mistakes'' -- meaning its attempts to take him prisoner. The whole point of the U.S. policy shift, however, was to call off the hunt for Aidid, which was widely blamed for converting what started out as a humanitarian mission into a mini war, in order to concentrate on a political - settlement that would prevent the country from falling apart after U.S. troops leave. To that end, Robert Oakley, Clinton's special envoy, met with five of Aidid's aides, though not the warlord himself. Afterward Oakley told reporters that...
...model of no excuses and significant gains.” Stutman said that he is not opposed to the TFA program, but believes that its introduction to Boston was handled poorly. “They are doing a disservice to their own members, their own people and to the mission of their own organization by forcing this issue,” he said. —Staff writer Sofia E. Groopman can be reached at segroopm@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Michelle L. Quach can be reached at mquach@fas.harvard.edu...
...Monday morning, as he watched footage of the exodus obtained by UAVs showing long lines of civilians crossing over to army-held areas. "It is now all over for the Tigers." The Defense Ministry later termed the latest flood of civilian escapees "the world's largest hostage rescue mission...
...Unfortunately, the project is currently on hold due to budget problems. "In principle, humans could probably launch such a mission in roughly a decade," Ford says. "In practice, I'd guess that it may be even further in the future...