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...didn't, and the big powers were unwilling to provide men or money to police the pact themselves, calling instead for an "African solution" from nations not up to the job. The U.N. cobbled together a ragtag force from some ill-equipped and ill-trained Third World armies that finally trickled in in January. There was money for just 8,700 of the 11,100 troops authorized. Only one battalion of Jordanian soldiers and a 200-man rapid-reaction force from India arrived fully armed to fight. The U.N. had to order 4,000 helmets for troops who came without...
...some of its own resources in a war to destroy Sankoh's forces and bring him to justice, or it will have to arm and pay the Nigerians - or some other group of guns for hire - to do the job. Because as long as Sankoh remains at large, no ragtag band of teenage killers anywhere need ever again fear the wavering wrath of the international community...
...Kosovo, the West went to war to stop ethnic cleansing; in Sierra Leone the international community appears unable to muster the will and resources to stop a ragtag guerrilla band that has already killed and mutilated tens of thousands more people than Slobodan Milosevic's forces ever did. The U.S. moved Monday to shore up the beleaguered U.N. peacekeeping mission to the war-torn west African country by offering to fly some 700 troops from Bangladesh into Sierra Leone, and also to provide logistical support should nearby Nigeria choose to resume its policing role in the former British colony...
TIME's coverage of environmental issues has grown right along with Earth Day. The brainchild of former Senator Gaylord Nelson, it began in the U.S. as a day of ragtag demonstrations on April 22, 1970, and now, on its 30th anniversary, is an Internet-driven global happening. TIME caught the wave even before the first Earth Day, establishing our Environment section in August 1969. Over the years the section has produced dozens of cover stories, including the 1989 special report in which we named Endangered Earth as Planet of the Year. In 1998 our U.S. edition launched a two-year...
...some ways, the IMF protest was a reunion. It wasn't a replay, though. In Seattle, organized labor ran interference for the ragtag groups assembled behind it, marshaling several thousand union members who feared that free trade might send their jobs abroad. In Washington, labor focused on lobbying Congress over the China-trade issue, leaving the IMF and the World Bank to the ad hoc Netocracy. Munson, the anarchist, thinks it's just as well. "The union heads are into a protectionist, nationalist agenda," he says. "They want to prevent China from entering the WTO. Our position is that...