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- <title>
- Mar. 15, 1993: Itching to Leave Those Troubles Behind
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 15, 1993 In the Name of God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- WORLD
- Itching to Leave Those Troubles Behind
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>American troops will gladly turn Somalia over to the U.N. in
- May
- </p>
- <p> After three months on Somali soil, the U.S.-led forces are
- heading into the homestretch. U.S. special envoy Robert Oakley
- took his leave, pronouncing the success of Operation Restore
- Hope in saving thousands of Somali lives and in bringing an end
- to the clan warfare that has plagued the country for more than
- two years. He may have overstated the case. Though the famine
- has abated, peace remains elusive, and the new U.N. force in
- Somalia, UNOSOM II, will face continued trouble when it takes
- command on May 1.
- </p>
- <p> Clan fighting in the southern port town of Kismayu
- continued, as residents stripped of their rifles by U.S. and
- Belgian servicemen pelted one another with rocks and lobbed
- grenades. At least five Somalis were killed and more than two
- dozen injured.
- </p>
- <p> American troops, shaken by the death of another one of
- their own when a vehicle hit a land mine, are more than ready to
- leave. Fallout continues from an incident five weeks ago:
- Gunnery Sergeant Harry Conde, infuriated when his prescription
- sunglasses were stripped off by a Somali youth, shot the boy in
- the abdomen. A military court is now considering whether he
- used "excessive force."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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