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- THE WEEK, Page 21WORLDForce Feeding
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- U.N. troops arrive in Somalia to make sure food aid reaches
- the starving
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- Moving cautiously into territory controlled by clan militias
- and trigger-happy bandits, the first armed U.N. forces arrived in
- Somalia to guard relief shipments. U.S. planes flew in 60
- troops, the advance team from a 500-man Pakistani battalion
- expected to arrive this week. Their initial assignment will be
- to secure the airport and harbor of Mogadishu, the capital, so
- food supplies can flow safely.
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- To back them up, the U.S. stationed four warships carrying
- helicopters and 2,100 Marines off the coast of Somalia. A
- Pentagon spokesman said the force was there only to support the
- airlift of the Pakistani troops. Assistant Secretary of State
- Herman Cohen insisted the U.S. "has no intention of landing a
- Marine expedition."
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- In the Somalian hinterland, U.S. cargo planes continued an
- airlift that has delivered more than 3,000 tons of food to
- remote villages since Aug. 28. But last week flights to one
- town, Belet Huen, were suspended after a plane was hit by a
- bullet.
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