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...lack of proper equipment has cost scores of lives. Pakistan sent 5,000 troops who did not have telephones, walkie-talkies, flak jackets, tear gas and even batons. Gear was eventually provided by other countries, but not before some of the poorly protected troops died in ambushes, and Somali civilians were killed when soldiers without riot gear fired their guns to dispel angry crowds. The U.N. has yet to organize an efficient communications network or stockpile enough rations. At one point food and water for the peacekeepers dropped well below a week's supply; someone had miscounted the number...
Seeking to create momentum in negotiations in Mogadishu, U.S. special envoy Robert Oakley declared himself "moderately encouraged" after meeting with various Somali clans and factions, despite one outstanding stumbling block: the U.N. warrant for General Mohammed Farrah Aidid's arrest, which the warlord says must be rescinded before he sits down at the table...
...Somali Clans Battle...
...trial an essential part of the mission." But back in June, while warning of a potential quagmire, the Times said, "Threatening General Aidid with arrest seems a minimal way of expressing international condemnation." And "Mr. Clinton dare not flinch . . . If the world's might cannot prevail against a Somali warlord, then what hope is there for collective security...
...arguments against the dubious proposition that television violence is an important cause of real violence in America are legion, and fairly obvious. Somali children gleefully fire grenades at clan rivals, while Bosnians and Serbs rape and kill each other, all without encouragement from television. Homo homini lupus--"man is a wolf to man"--was Plautus' lament long before NYPD Blue...