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The military leaders have agreed to restore Aristide to power by October 30. If the current naval blockade fails to persuade them to comply with their earlier agreement, the U.S. should be an active member of a well-armed and supported U.N. coalition to evict them.
But it now seems possible that Somalia will set a very different precedent -- of extreme U.S. reluctance to mount or join any peacekeeping operation except one that poses little or no risk of casualties. There are signs that this is happening already. The U.S. was supposed to send 600 military...
Dove hopes to restore that sense of personal discovery through high tech. She wants to use closed-circuit TV to broadcast readings into elementary and junior high schools, then answer questions from the students. "I think we can get these kids when they're young," she says. "I think they...
-- DEMOCRACY: Everybody's favorite Western-sounding word. The rebel legislators used it, but their aim was the antithesis of democracy -- to create a new form of dictatorship that would restore the authority and privileges they had lost. Yeltsin too has little claim to the term, particularly last week when he...
Bill Clinton, like other Western leaders, fully backed Yeltsin's use of force, saying the Russian President had "no other choice than to try to restore order." Still, many in the West were worried that Yeltsin might choose to emphasize the authoritarian part of his new activism at the expense...