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Acting Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis, who inherited Wilde's mongrel dogs, Whiskey and Pee Wee, along with his old job, has been in Mogadishu long enough to watch the city go from outright anarchy to "a place that almost feels safe." Bringing peace to Somalia's interior, however, may take some doing. In Baidoa, Purvis saw a young Somali no more than eight years old waltz up to a relief worker who was carrying a bag of cheese-flavored chips. "The kid had an AK-47 draped over his shoulder, its muzzle almost dragging in the dust," says Purvis...
...over to U.N. peacekeepers. Somalis feel that the U.N. team already in the country has been neither impartial nor adequate. They also nurse ill feelings toward U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali, who once had dealings with the ousted dictator Mohammed Siad Barre. "They practiced deceit, secrecy, deception and outright bribery," charges Mohammed Awale, an adviser to Aidid, "adding to the fragmentation of Somali society." Restoring the U.N.'s credibility may be a surprisingly tough part of the mission...
...acknowledgement of misdeeds has come after his reelection. Packwood beat out Democratic challenger Les AuCoin by only 4 percent in a race that many predicted could go either way. In an interview with the Post before the election and in previous interviews with local newspapers Packwood denied the accusations outright...
Starting today, the red-eyed defending Eastern champs--who have seriously hurt their chances of winning an outright Ivy title--hope to wash the sting away at Blodgett Pool, where the Crimson hosts Syracuse and Villanova in a meet designed to test the team's progress to date...
This staggering figure with its pernicious cumulative effect represents twice the amount that Harvard alumni generously contribute in the best of years. According to the most conservative analysis the University has already realized a loss of at least $1 billion in outright losses and unrealized income in the last half dozen years...