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No 18                September 18, 1992.               ISSN 1103-1999

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Dorothy Morse of Peacenet sent me this report:

Herman Cohen, Asst. Secy. for African Affairs, was on the MacNeil/Lehrer
News Hour last night and said the Marines would be offshore, ready to
perform search and rescue missions for any airplanes that went down and
to protect the Pakistanis.  Later in the program he said the Marines would
not go ashore except in the search and rescue missions, and that they would
simply be in "readiness."  He strongly denied any likelihood that the marines
would be sent ashore to preserve order of themselves, and regretted that
the decision to call them in (they were on a boat in the area anyway) had
been made without consulting Mohamed Sahnoun.  they hope to iron out
any difficulties caused by that blooper.