MOGADISHU, Somalia - Rival clans battled each other with mortars, machine guns and light arms near Mogadishu's airport yesterday in a possible preview of Somalia's future after the departure of U.N. peacekeepers.
With a U.S.-led military coalition poised just offshore, the fighting also offered a taste of what American and Italian Marines might face in the coming days as they guard the withdrawal of the last U.N. soldiers.
About 50 U.S. Army special forces soldiers already are ashore to help the remaining Pakistani and Bangladeshi troops complete preparations to leave under the coalition shield.
WASHINGTON - Previewing the bitter battle emerging over proposed budget cuts, House Democrats accused Republicans yesterday of taking food from the mouths of children and were told by their GOP counterparts that they have lost touch with the American people.
Republican budget-cutters are "clobbering kids and clobbering seniors in order to pay for tax cuts like the capital gains tax cut for some very high-income people," said Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee on NBC's "Meet the Press."
The Appropriations Committee is slated Thursday to take up a package of $17.5 billion in cuts from this year's budget in housing, nutrition initiatives, peacekeeping and other programs.
WASHINGTON - One of the nation's biggest anti-smoking projects failed to help heavy smokers kick the habit, and had just a modest effect on more moderate smokers, federal scientists report.
Disappointed National Cancer Institute researchers blamed the $45 million study's lack of effect on people who smoked more than 25 cigarettes a day on nicotine addiction too powerful to overcome.
They insisted their modest success with more moderate smokers - a 3 percent higher quit rate - was significant enough for communities nationwide to adopt the anti-smoking programs.
Students have one month from today to change their UK-VIP Personal Access Code. Students are required to change their code by March 27 and may do so by dialing 257-7000.
Zeta Phi Beta social sorority is holding its annual Career Fair tomorrow in the Student Center Grand Ballroom between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. United Parcel Service and several other local businesses are expected to attend.
CHICAGO - Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis told Oprah Winfrey that living secretly with AIDS was an "incredible burden," and he plans to spend the rest of his life "openly and honestly."
In an appearance that airs today, Louganis also told of his diving board accident at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, a rape at knifepoint and his numerous suicide attempts.
"It's been so difficult with the secret, and asking people to keep the secrets," said Louganis, who revealed last summer he was homosexual and last week that he has AIDS. "I was feeling like a fake."
Winfrey arranged for Louganis to meet the mother of Ryan White, the teen-ager who died of AIDS in 1990 after contracting it through a blood transfusion.
The diver dedicated his new book "Breaking the Surface" to Ryan, whom he befriended several years ago. Jeanne White calls the gold medalist her "second son."
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