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...some sort of national government. The alternatives are grim: a kind of permanent U.N. protectorate over Somalia, as in Cyprus, where U.N. troops still patrol almost 30 years after going in to preserve a truce; or Somalia's relapse into chaos, anarchy, famine and mass death. Says Patrick Vercammen, the U.N. humanitarian official in the town of Baidoa: "The Americans could have done 10 times more than they have done. Fifty times. They thump on their chests, but the biggest part of the job has yet to be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission Half Accomplished | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

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