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Elite U.S. Troops to Somalia...
...funds, weapons and orders to their own adherents. The annual budget for these groups is estimated to be $20 million, and they are supplied with arms ranging from sophisticated explosives to jeeps and trucks. The State Department says it also has information that Sudan has helped militant elements in Somalia, including General Mohammed Farrah Aidid...
...Zone tour of Lebanon. For $25,000, travelers can spend two weeks hunting for shrapnel in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley, visiting the scene of the U.S. Marine barracks blown up in 1983 and dining in a Palestinian refugee camp. Beyerle says he also plans trips to Nicaragua, Somalia and parts of the former Soviet Union...
...remote-control bomb. An outraged President Clinton vowed to take "appropriate action" that might include sending in "special forces and other creative military operations" to hunt down Aidid. But Senate Republican leader Bob Dole urged the Administration to review and possibly scale back its military presence in Somalia...
...starvation: a frail child is barely able to share a meager meal with his father at a feeding center; a desperately weak man stares at a bowl of water; another is huddled by the remains of a fire with a packet of rehydration salts. As earlier in Ethiopia and Somalia, this famine is in part the result of civil war. Initially the fighting pitted the Muslim government in Khartoum against Christian rebels in the south; now the rebels are also killing one another. No one knows how many are starving, but in a cycle of hatred and revenge, peace...