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...resolution is purposefully vague on the issue of disarming Somalis, yet this is already proving vexatious. Both Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have offered no specific guidelines on how far the troops ought to go in seizing weapons from the local populace, leaving commanders on the ground to figure out the details. Both have stressed, however, that troops will take whatever action they deem necessary when threatened. Pressed on more general plans for disarmament, Oakley said, "We plan to negotiate with the Somalis and have them...
...what one of them calls "air power to compel behavior." Such plans would provide a way to make Serbia suffer for its aggression in Bosnia by bombing Serbia's power plants, fuel dumps, railway lines and bridges, the kind of infrastructure war the U.S. used to soften up Iraq. Cheney touched on this possible course at the NATO meeting last week. "The Secretary is not proposing going ahead with this stuff," says one of his aides, "but he wants NATO to know our thoughts...
...again after the U.S.-U.N. troops leave? The hope is that the combat troops can pacify the country enough for a smaller, "regular" U.N. peacekeeping force to take over. Though the U.S. would like to begin pulling out by Bill Clinton's Inauguration Jan. 20, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney said it "would not be bound by an artificial deadline," and Powell thought the job would require "two to three months, at my best guess." Perhaps, but it could also prove much easier to get into Somalia than to get out again. (See related cover stories beginning on page...
...Mather resident Laura K. Cheney '94 saidthat Mather's undesirability was to blame for alack of interest among faculty members...
...think Mather is pretty ugly and it doesn'thave the prestige as some of the other houses do,"Cheney said. "It's also the furthest house alongthe river...