Word: warlords
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...hindsight, President Clinton undoubtedly wishes he'd stopped that U.N. Security Council resolution on Somalia last June -- the one leading to the pursuit and capture of warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Defense Secretary Les Aspin has admitted that he regrets vetoing the military's request for more tanks for Somalia in September -- tanks that might have prevented Aidid's massacre of American troops on Oct. 3. And the Administration might well be having second thoughts about the so-called Governors Island accord of July 3, which committed the U.S. to send at least a few troops to help restore democracy...
American Army Rangers in Mogadishu raided a suspected meeting place of fugitive warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, but the attack went awry and turned into a 15-hour fire fight, leaving at least 15 American soldiers dead, one taken prisoner and two unnacounted for. With Congress in an uproar, President Clinton addressed the nation and said he would immediately send more troops to Somalia, bringing their number to 10,000. Clinton pledged, however, that all forces would return home by March...
...Boys or The Sunshine Boys -- had begun when the main characters really were boys, and continued for 53 years of love, comradeship and betrayal. Concubine (cut by about 15 minutes for its U.S. release but still a rich and savory 2 1/2- hour banquet) hopscotches from the warlord era to the Japanese occupation to the Cultural Revolution and beyond. And under each regime, the artist is a pampered slave: flogged by his teachers, adored by his audience, toyed with by the elite, denounced by Mao's vindictive masses -- and always asked to do that showstopper, the fable about the king...
...renewed fighting has turned into Frankenstein's monster running amuck, largely beyond the control of its original superpower sponsors. The West, which for years backed Savimbi, overtly and covertly, as an anticommunist African democrat, finds itself with little leverage over a rogue warlord whose control of Angola's diamond deposits could enable him to finance his operations indefinitely. Backed by oil revenues of $3 billion a year, the government too has looked determined to fight to the finish. Thus, unless this week's developments lead to a lasting truce, the worst is perhaps still to come. In the countryside...
...credibility is Clinton's other stated objective. He foresees an "open season on Americans" if "aggressors, thugs and terrorists . . . conclude that the best way to get us to change our policies is to kill our people." Which means what? A Defense Department official says hunting down General Aidid, the warlord responsible for targeting America's soldiers, is "definitely still an option." But the State Department insists that the increased U.S. troop presence is merely meant to protect the forces already there, and Clinton has signaled a willingness to negotiate rather than kill Aidid. "We have no interest in denying anybody...