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HELICOPTER GUNSHIP ATTACKS, GROUND RAIDS, more casualties -- the news from Somalia increasingly resembles reports from a war zone. To enforce a cease- fire between rival warlords, four rocket- and cannon-firing U.S. Cobra choppers teamed up with Belgian paratroopers to rout forces advancing on the southern port of Kismayu; reports had eight Somalis killed and about 40 wounded. On Saturday at dusk, 700 U.S. troops backed by helicopters swept into the crossroads town of Afgoi to flush out bandit gangs that have been ambushing supplies en route to the famine belt. Meanwhile, in Mogadishu, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Anthony Botello...
...report called "the telephone being used as a weapon of terror" the most disturbing crime trend of 1992 Telephone threats and harassment soared from 400 incidents in 1990 to more than 900 in 1992, the re port said...
...step, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, leader of the armed forces, and his Prime Minister Marc Bazin have agreed to accept up to 400 international observers who are supposed to deter human rights violations and create a climate for free political activity. The first batch is slated to arrive in Port-au-Prince early next week. Negotiators hope this will eventually lead to a pardon of the coup plotters, a new Prime Minister agreed upon by Cedras and Aristide, and an end to the trade embargo that has crippled an already weak economy. At this point the sanctions are punishing...
...ever. Many suspect the military is only playing along to get the international community off its back. Hard-liners within the army, furious at the prospect of international monitors, tried to mount a coup two weeks ago, and a group of young soldiers at the Freres army camp outside Port-au-Prince mutinied on Jan. 20. The 8,400- man army is dangerously riven: its rank and file fear that its leaders will cut and run into comfortable exile, leaving subordinates to face the people's anger. Aristide too suspects the army is bargaining in bad faith...
...live in fear and oppression. The current 16-member OAS monitoring team has been bottled up in the capital since September: they have no credentials, no cars and no permission to venture into the countryside. When people seeking asylum venture into the U.S. center for processing refugees in Port-au-Prince, they can see the army headquarters just two blocks away. Some are risking their life by even crossing the threshold. When they leave, informers loitering downstairs -- some posing as money changers -- are waiting to report their names to the police...