Word: somalia
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...danger is that Zaire, a vast territory 20% larger than Mexico, could begin to disintegrate, plunging its 250-odd tribal groups into a nightmarish civil war of the kind that has left tens of thousands dead in Somalia and Liberia. Shortages of food and gasoline are severe; road and rail links between major cities have been virtually swallowed by the encroaching jungle. Even in the capital's Mama Yemo hospital -- named for Mobutu's deceased mother -- children suffer without medication, and hundreds of victims of the AIDS epidemic die untreated. In the trackless bush, where millions of peasants and tribesmen...
...example, Kristol cited the disparity between U.S. involvements in Somalia and Bosnia. He said that the U.S.' different policies were justified by the specific conditions in the two areas...
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...
...only perfunctory contacts with President Clinton's advisers, and no one seems to be discussing the vital question of rules of engagement -- that is, under what circumstances the peacekeepers could shoot. So the 25,000 U.S. and 12,000 other foreign troops remaining in Somalia may be stuck for weeks or months, and their duty remains hazardous. Last week Chief Warrant Officer Gus Axelson of the U.S. Marines took a bullet in the right shoulder while riding in a convoy in Mogadishu. He was the third U.S. military man wounded; one has been killed...
...Inaugural stand could have been tense. The Bushes and the Quayles were on the high ground, surrounded by the victors, every facial tic and gesture being beamed around the world. Bush searched for friends. The Joint Chiefs of Staff, such stalwarts through the Persian Gulf and now in Somalia and Iraq, were nearby, and he leaned far over to shake hands. Suddenly, from behind them, came the face and hand of Admiral William Crowe, the former Chairman, who had made a splashy stand for Clinton during the campaign. Warm shake. Nice words. Hostilities contained...