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...started with an assault on Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers in Mogadishu and escalated into a bombing campaign against the attack's instigator, Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Finally, U.N. troops stormed Aidid's stronghold, forcing him to flee, and to remain separated from most of his supporters. Five U.N. troops and over 100 Somali militia were killed; 46 peacekeepers and more than 100 Somalis were wounded...
...attacks proved relatively painless. They were fast, accurate, and there were no allied casualties. But beyond venting anger at the U.N. killings, it was hard to see that Washington had moved much closer to cleaning up Somalia. Pentagon officials told TIME that a follow-up % attack on Aidid's stronghold in the city of Galkaio will soon follow. Until and unless the warlord is captured, Clinton will be unable to call it a mission accomplished...
...important, he asserts, for people who have been as lucky as he has to return something to the community. That notion--with the premium it places on public service--may seem strange coming from the dean of the Harvard Business School and the leader of a symbolic stronghold of free market capitalism...
...fighters call this the "bicycle path," a narrow strip of bitterly contested ground cutting for nearly 150 miles through north central Bosnia to connect the Serb stronghold of Doboj to Serbia proper. Muslim and Croat lines ) pinch the corridor on both its eastern and western flanks. Daily shelling empties the town much of the day; by early afternoon the only sound on the main boulevard is the flapping of plastic sheets that cover shop windows shattered by artillery rounds. But when dusk closes in, fighters and young girls venture out to meet at a small park, whispering beneath the pine...
Sensing the change, politicians of both parties have felt it easier to buck the gun lobby -- especially since the NRA seldom budges from its never-give- an-inch credo. The New Jersey defeat came just three weeks after Virginia, an NRA stronghold, adopted a one-per-month limit on handgun purchases. The aim was to discourage bulk buyers who had turned the state into a firepower exporter to street criminals everywhere. "People recognize that this random gun violence is out of control," says Susan Whitmore, communications director of Handgun Control, a lobbying group. Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Minnesota have...