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Marines are seeing
death at its ugliest
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Pfc. Domingo
Arroyo has become the first U.S. Marine to die
in this repository of lawlessness half way around
the world.
His comrades in arms are angry that Arroyo,
only 21, will never fulfill a
young man’s dreams. They
are afraid that a bullet might
also earn them an unwanted
niche in history.
The Marines had hoped to
leave with everyone they
brought into Somalia on
Dec. 9, even though snipers
regularly have fired on them.
Now that hope is gone, they’re seeing the
finality of death at its ugliest.
“Everybody should realize that this is the
real thing over here. It’s not a game,” said one
man who stared death down and didn’t blink.
Lt. David Ballinger, 24, of Nashville, Tenn.,
led a patrol that fought off an ambush in a dark
alley Sunday near the former U.S. Embassy,
now Marine headquarters.
“There’s people really out there try ing to put
a bullet in you,” said Ballinger, an artilleryman
who joined a rifle company the night of the
ambush. ‘This is the first time I’ve ever done
anything like this. It’s kind of scary.”
The bullet that killed Arroyo also mentally
wounded scoresof hiscomrades with the shrap
nel of pain antiguilt and anger and fear and a lot
of other feelings difficult to express.
“I don’t know how I’m feeling right now,
just built up,” said one of Arroyo’s best friends,
Cpl. Quanta Perry, 23, of Augusta, Ga. ‘‘I hated
that it had to end this way.”
Perry had stood in harm’s way as a guard at
the gate of the former U.S. embassy, facing
crowds of Somalis who stare endlessly at the
Marines and sometimes taunt them.
The news dazed him, and his sergeant pulled
him away from the gate and took his rifle away.
“Anytime someone gives you bad news like
that, they take it away because they probably
think you’re going to commit suicide or shoot
Somalis,” Perry said, fighting off tears. “I guess
he just thinks 1 might open up on the crowd.”
Perry walked around the Marine compound,
thinking, thinking, thinking.
“I’m not going to injure myself,” Perry said.
“He was a good friend but I have to continue on
with the mission. I’m here to do my job but I
can’t take my aggression out on them.”
Clinton administration is looking
at possible benefit program cuts
WASHINGTON — Presidcni-elecl Clinton
is eyeing S750 billion worth of popular benefit
programs for possible budget cuts. Glaring
right back are tcnsofmillionsof voters who rely
on them.
Clinton’seconomic team has acknowledged
it is considering taking the budget knife to
programs such as Social Security, Medicare
and Medicaid. Clinton aides say they have
made no decisions.
“It’s going to call for courageous and tough
stands by the president,” conceded Sen. Lloyd
Bentsen, D-Texas, Clinton’s Treasury secre
tary-designate,at his Senate confirmation hear
ing this week. “And 1 believe you’re going to
gel them.” That’sexactly what it will take. For
while fat targets abound in these benefit pro
grams, so do the multitudes of Americans who
don’t want their coverage reduced.
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NCAA director maysuggest football playoff
BOSTON — The executive director of
the NCAA reportedly will call for consider
ation of a one-game championship playoff
in Division 1-A college football, which
would be played after all the bowl games.
Dick Schultz was expected to suggest the
playoff system in his annual “State of the
NCAA” speech Wednesday in Dallas, The
Boston Globe reported.
While Schultz cannot force the member
ship to adopt the plan, he will suggest the
schools consider it as a way to generate more
money in the same manner as the NCAA
basketball tournament.
The idea of a college football champion
ship playoff has been around for years, but
has met stiff opposition from the bowl
games.
Coaches and college administrators also
have generally opposed playoffs, arguing
they didn’t want to extend the season any
further.
The extra revenue, however, could be
attractive to athletic directors who must
deal with rising costs and the implementa
tion of more women’s programs to meet
certain requirements.
This year, the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked
teams met in the Sugar Bowl, with second
ranked Alabama defeating Miami for the
national title. But such matchups have been
rare.
Kelly survives first practice, will start on Sunday
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Jim Kelly
will start for the Buffalo Bills in Sunday’s
AFC Championship against the Miami Dol
phins, assuming his knee shows no ill effects
from Wednesday’s practice.
“We’ll sec how he comes in tomorrow,”
coach Marv Levy said. “If there aren’t any
after-effects of today’s practice and he’s
OK, he’s our guy.” Kelly sprained his right
knee in Buffalo’s regular season finale against
the Houston Oilers and has missed the Bills’
first two playoff games.
Wednesday was Kelly’s first practice
since the injury and the four-time Pro Bowl
quarterback said his leg felt “pretty good.”
“As practice wore on, I started getting more
comfortable with it,” Kelly said. “Hope
fully, I won ’ t be re-injured between now and
Sunday. As of today, I took the majority of
snaps and my leg felt pretty good.”
Kelly’s backup, Frank Reich, led the
Bills to a record-setting, come-from-behind
41 -38 victory against the Oilers in the open
ing playoff game and to a 24-3 victory over
the Pittsburgh Stcelcrs last weekend.
Mavericks fire coach after team-worst 2-27 start
DALLAS—The Dallas Mavericks, with
the worst record in the NBA and on a 12
game losing streak, fired coach Richie
Adubalo Wednesday.
Assistant coach Gar Heard will run the
team on an interim basis.
“With the direction we chose to go —
becoming the youngest most inexperienced
team in the league, we knew it would be a
difticuli season,” said Rick Sund, vice presi
dent of operations, who went to Detroit late
Tuesday and gave Adubalo the news this
morning.
The Ma'-cricks have won only two of
their 29 games thisscason.
Some of the woes have been traced to the
Mavs inability to sign first-round draftchoice
Jim Jackson.
At the end of December, Jackson turned
down a six-year contract, once considered
the key stumbling block that led to a stale
mate in negotiations.
Jackson also told reporters that he would
never play for the Mavericks, even if it
meant silling out the year and re-entering the
draft.
Astronauts plan toy show,
spacewalks and toilet tests
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Endeavour
rocketed into space Wednesday on the year’s
first shuttle flight and the five astronauts
promptly released a communications satellite.
“There she goes!’’crewman Mario Runco Jr.
said as the satellite drifted from the cargo bay
six hours into the mission.
The astronauts also planned a toy show and
spacewalk, and got a chance to use a new $23
million toilet.
NASA’s newest shuttle lifted off its seaside
pad into a hazy sky at 8:59 a.m., just seven
minutes late because of extra computer checks.
The climb to orbit took the usual 8 1/2 minutes
and Endeavour soon was cruising 184 miles
high. “It’s a good ride up, and Endeavour and
the crew arcglad to be back in space,” com
mander John Casper reported.
million Tracking and Data Relay Satellite from
the cargo bay. Shortly after deployment, an
attached rocket was fired and propelled the 2 1/
2-ton satellite toward a 22,300-mile-high orbit.
The next major event of Endeavour’s mis
sion occurs Friday, when the astronauts pull out
an assortment of toys for a televised lesson.
They will chat with students at four elementary
schools while demonstrating how balls, cars
and magnetic marbles behave in weightless
ness. On Sunday, two astronauts are to step into
the open cargo bay for the first spacewalk by
Americans since May.
Endeavour’s new toilet also is geared to
ward the future. The new commode can accom
modate much more solid waste than the old
model and is said to require less crew operation.
British peacekeeper killed in Bosnia;
news of potential peace pact dismissed
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A
British U.N. peacekeeper was killed in central
Bosnia Wednesday, and Sarajevans bitterly
dismissed news of a possible breakthrough in
peace talks in Geneva as more maneuvering by
the Serbs.
The British peackccper was killed by small
arms fire in the town, but the identity of the
attackers was not immediately known, a Min
istry of Defense spokesman in London said.
Sarajevo spent a relatively peaceful night
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after the announcement late Tuesday that the
Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, had
reversed his earlier opposition to the Geneva
peace plan.
But Sarajevo residents bitterly dismissed
Karadzic’s move, and some accused the inter
national community of papering over differ
ences in a way that Karadzic and Serbian
President Slobodan Milosevic would later ex
ploit to ensure continued Serb control over
most of Bosnia.
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