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<text id=93TT0966>
<title>
Jan. 25, 1993: One Good Man Less
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Jan. 25, 1993 Stand and Deliver: Bill Clinton
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK
WORLD, Page 18
One Good Man Less
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<p>U.S. military forces in Somalia suffer their first loss, a Marine
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<p> Brought to the States as a teenager from his native Puerto
Rico, Domingo Arroyo quickly learned that America is not always
the promised land. With his mother Ramona and younger brother
Ramon, he grew up in a grim housing project in Elizabeth, New
Jersey, and struggled with studies in high school. He saw
military service as the path to a better life and seemed well
on his way to achieving it. Six months short of completing a
four-year tour in the Marine Corps, Private First Class Arroyo,
21--who had won a combat-action ribbon during Desert Storm--pulled duty in Somalia with elements of his California-based
regiment. When his night patrol retreated under sudden gunfire
near Mogadishu airport last Tuesday, Arroyo was discovered to
be missing. His body was recovered within minutes, and he became
the first uniformed fatality of Operation Restore Hope.
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<p> Arroyo's death dramatized the continuing violence in
Somalia. Much of it was directed against U.S. forces under
orders to confiscate numerous arms caches controlled by Somali
warlords, but others are caught in the middle. The International
Red Cross suspended operations after one of its officials was
killed by robbers in Bardera. At week's end leaders of 14
feuding Somali factions meeting in Ethiopia agreed to a
cease-fire at home. But word of the stand-down had still not
reached Mogadishu, where gunfire continued to sound routinely.
At least 100,000 Somalis still carry weapons.
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