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U.S. troops injured in Somalia
Three Marines hurt when bomb explodes under their vehicle
The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — A mine explosion ripened through a military vehicle in Mogadishu yesterday, wounding three U.S. Marines and killing a Somali U.I. employee, a U.N. representative said.
Somali gunmen ambushed the Humvee utility vehicle following the explosion, Maj. David Stockwell said by telephone from the Somali capital.
Stockwell said that the mine was detonated by remote and apparently specifically targeted the U.S. vehicle.
"It is just another in a series of unprovoked attacks on U.N. troops in general and on U.S. troops in particular," he said.
The Italian news agency ANSA
reported yesterday that a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter was shot down over Mogadishu's Bakhara market, U.N. representative Kikuro Maeayama in New York said she could not confirm that report. U.N. officials in Mogadishu were not immediately available for comment.
The ANSA report said there was no word on the fate of the crew.
Stockwell said the Humwee was about a quarter-mile from the United Nations' port complex when the mine exploded.
A Blackhawk helicopter was shot at when it arrived at the scene but managed to land and rescue the survivors, Stockwell said.
The Blackhawk and two other helicopters returned fire with machine guns and cannons, Stockwell said. He said that there were "undoubtedly" casualties on the other side but said that he did not know how many.
The three Marines were hospitalized in stable condition yesterday
evening with shrapnel wounds and burns.
There are 28,000 troops from 28 countries in Somalia, where the United Nations took over command from the United States in May. The U.N. forces came to protect food shipments to starving Somalis but have become increasingly bogged down in fighting the forces of fugitive warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid.
Aldid, who said the U.N. troops have become an unwanted occupying force, has been blamed for masterminding attacks that have killed 56 peacekeepers since June.
Stockwell said that yesterday's attack was the fifth mine explosion aimed at U.S. forces and was consistent with Aidid's tactics. Four U.S. soldiers were killed Aug. 8 when a mine explosion tore apart their Humvee.
The Humvee attacked yesterday was carrying sandbags to protect against a nine attack, Stockwell said.
Joseph Kennedy rallies Kansas Democrats appeals to'60s activism
About 500 influential Democrats met this weekend to recall—and, many hope, revive—the party's activist spirit of the 1960s.
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On hand to remind the group of its past was U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II, D-Mass., the 41-year-old son of Robert and Ethel Kennedy.
Robert Kennedy, the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968 while pursuing the Democratic nomination for president.
The younger Kennedy reminded the Wichita audience Friday that his father's first appearance after declaring his candidacy was at Kansas State University in Manhattan.
"The last time I saw my father, he was getting on a plane, to come to Kansas," he said.
Hours before his Wichita appearance Friday, Kennedy drew a standing-room-only audience for an afternoon speech on the K-State campus.
Kennedy drew parallels between the turbulent 1960s, when the underprivileged believed that the government no
longer represented them, and today, when middle-class victims of corporate layoffs cannot figure out why government has not done more to protect them.
"These are enormous problems, but we can handle them if we pull together," he said.
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Omaha man richest in United States
Warren Buffett, the investor who began picking stocks at age 11 and prefers Omaha, Neb., to Wall Street, nearly doubled his money in the past year to $8.3 billion, vaulting him to the title of richest American.
Buffett, 63, rode a 70 percent increase in the stock price of his Berkshire Hathaway inc. investment company to rise from eighth place and unseat Microsoft's Bill Gates as the nation's wealthiest person, Forbes magazine reported yesterday.
The magazine's annual Forbes 400 ranking appears in its Oct. 18 issue.
A passionate investor since his pre-teen days. Buffett parlayed an aging textile firm into a conglomerate with interests ranging from insurance to newspapers and from soda pop to shoes.
He is considered a living investment legend whose utterances can move the stock market.
Monday, October 4, 1993
Briefs compiled from The Associated Press
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