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...Somalia is a mosaic of clans and subclans. The men who captured Mogadishu in January 1991 and put President Mohammed Siad Barre to flight belong to the Hawiye clan. The northern quarter of the capital is held by the , Abagal subclan of interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed. The Habar Gedir subclan of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid dominates the southern three-fourths. At the beginning of last year, hatred of Siad Barre united the groups, but that unity is long gone. Another clan has declared an independent Somaliland in the north; yet another controls the land south and west of Mogadishu...
...weeks ago, a United Nations-led peace delegation brokered a cease-fire -- at least the third since September -- signed by both Ali Mahdi and Aidid. But the war is far from over. Somalians have a familiar proverb -- "I and Somalia against the world. I and my clan against Somalia. I and my family against the clan. I and my brother against the family. I against my brother" -- and they seem determined to fight their way to the very last line...
...Substance of Fire, is at Lincoln Center after a sold-out run at the smaller Playwrights Horizons. Structurally, the problems are the opposite of the Korder play's. The first half, about a family dispute over a publishing empire, surges with believable life. The second half, about the clan's Holocaust-scarred patriarch, clanks with calculation...
...suspects that a considerable understanding of the British intelligentsia is necessary for a true appreciation of these works. Just reading Iris Murdoch will not do. The story involves the Lampitt family, a large clan whose money springs from 18th century alehouses. "They're not really aristocrats," a character observes, "they're the intellectual aristocracy of England . . . one of the best things this country has ever produced...
...drink manufacturers, investment firms and banks, may be the opening gambit of a Continent-wide scramble in which European and American companies will grab for the biggest possible portions in the soon-to-be- restructured European trading community. Friends have quoted Giovanni Agnelli, elder statesman of the Turin clan, as saying, "I really won't be satisfied until I have a Nestle." As the stakes get higher in Europe's food industry, the ultimate question may become who eats whom first...