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...over Mogadishu on a mission of retaliation for the killings, one week earlier, of 23 United Nations peacekeepers. For the next several hours, flares and tracer bullets lit the predawn skies of the Somali capital as the aircraft pummeled six sites of strategic importance to the country's paramount warlord, Mohammed Farrah Aidid. U.S. forces hit Aidid's radio station, four weapons and ammunitions dumps, and an abandoned cigarette factory that had been used to fire on the U.N. troops. At least 200 Somalis were detained, four died and 20 were wounded in the attack and subsequent street clashes...
...initial mission a success. But the primary target of the attack, Aidid himself, remained at large. "He's not out of business," said U.S. Major General Thomas Montgomery, deputy commander of the U.N. forces in Mogadishu, "but I bet he's pretty shaky today." To keep pressure on the warlord, a second air assault pounded the area near his private compound for 25 minutes early Sunday...
...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...
...House continued to equivocate over its choice to fill the Supreme Court seat of Byron White. The President seemed ready to name federal Appeals Court Judge Stephen Breyer, with whom he had lunch on Friday afternoon. But after devoting most of his attention to weekend attacks against a Somali warlord, Clinton postponed his decision, saying he wanted to "reflect more." One possible reason: reports that Breyer has a "Zoe Baird problem" -- he failed to pay Social Security taxes for a domestic employee...
Farewell to My Concubine spans more than a half-century of Chinese history, from the Warlord Era through the Japanese occupation up to and past the egregious humiliations of the Cultural Revolution. Because the main characters who reflect and endure these tumultuous times are performing artists -- two stars of the Peking Opera, stalwart Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) and comely Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) -- the movie conjures up dozens of American movies, like Singin' in the Rain and For the Boys, in which popular entertainers put aside their differences before they put on the greasepaint. There is, of course, a pretty woman...