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...just trying to slog our way through, doing it case by case," says U.N. spokesman Joseph Sills. "We are being asked to do jobs of greater size and scope than ever before, but we are short on manpower, short on money and short on troop contributions." The lack of resources is mainly the result of some member nations' being delinquent in paying their dues. The U.S., which pays 30% of the U.N.'s peacekeeping costs, owes $114 million to that fund and $296 million in regular U.N. dues. Russia owes a total of $400 million. Meanwhile, the cost of keeping...
...course, we are $4 trillion in debt. Aid to Somalia, in terms of money for food and money for troop deployment, should be redirected to save citizens of this troubled country...
...external dangers it will have to defend against or what it might need for the purpose. Military planners in Moscow say they want to organize a relatively small, fast-moving high-tech force that could react swiftly to security threats along the troubled periphery. The generals expect to bring troop strength down to 1.5 million officers and men sometime after 1993. How soon depends on finding ways to house and employ the hundreds of thousands of professional officers who will be demobilized. The housing shortage is severe: more than 200,000 officers and their families are already living...
...Soldiers of the former Soviet army remain in all three countries, despite sporadic negotiations for withdrawal. Russian President Boris Yeltsin, faced with nationalist and economic pressures of his own, halted troop departures to punish Latvia and Estonia for what he termed "blatant discrimination" against ethnic Russians. Watching the political turmoil in Moscow, Baltic leaders are plagued by the fear that a coup could lead hard-liners to use the troops to retake the former republics by force...
...President-in-waiting supports the plan worked out by Bush and former Secretary of State James Baker to keep U.S. troop levels in Europe, already down to half the 300,000-strong contingent of two years ago, to a minimum of 100,000 after 1995; excluding support personnel, that number will really amount to only 75,000 combat troops. "If he goes below 75,000," Dewar says, "it will be dangerously low." Even the French, who have been trying to ease America gently out of its commanding role, would blanch at the idea of insufficient U.S. force levels in Europe...