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- <text id=93TT0966>
- <title>
- Jan. 25, 1993: One Good Man Less
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 25, 1993 Stand and Deliver: Bill Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 18
- One Good Man Less
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- <body>
- <p>U.S. military forces in Somalia suffer their first loss, a Marine
- </p>
- <p> Brought to the States as a teenager from his native Puerto
- Rico, Domingo Arroyo quickly learned that America is not always
- the promised land. With his mother Ramona and younger brother
- Ramon, he grew up in a grim housing project in Elizabeth, New
- Jersey, and struggled with studies in high school. He saw
- military service as the path to a better life and seemed well
- on his way to achieving it. Six months short of completing a
- four-year tour in the Marine Corps, Private First Class Arroyo,
- 21--who had won a combat-action ribbon during Desert Storm--pulled duty in Somalia with elements of his California-based
- regiment. When his night patrol retreated under sudden gunfire
- near Mogadishu airport last Tuesday, Arroyo was discovered to
- be missing. His body was recovered within minutes, and he became
- the first uniformed fatality of Operation Restore Hope.
- </p>
- <p> Arroyo's death dramatized the continuing violence in
- Somalia. Much of it was directed against U.S. forces under
- orders to confiscate numerous arms caches controlled by Somali
- warlords, but others are caught in the middle. The International
- Red Cross suspended operations after one of its officials was
- killed by robbers in Bardera. At week's end leaders of 14
- feuding Somali factions meeting in Ethiopia agreed to a
- cease-fire at home. But word of the stand-down had still not
- reached Mogadishu, where gunfire continued to sound routinely.
- At least 100,000 Somalis still carry weapons.
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- </body>
- </article>
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