NBC Nightly News - 1992-12-08

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[0:00] Navy SEALs come ashore in Somalia and

[0:02] their first encounter is with the press.

[0:05] Their next encounter

[0:07] with the many needs of Somalia.

[0:11] And back home, Bill Clinton does some

[0:13] more advanced work in Washington.

[0:17] This is NBC Nightly News with Tom

[0:20] Brokaw.

[0:22] Reporting tonight from Somalia with Jane

[0:25] Pauley in New York.

[0:28] Good evening from the Mogadishu Airport

[0:30] in Somalia and there's never been

[0:32] anything quite like this. Primetime live

[0:35] television coverage of a large-scale

[0:37] amphibious landing by United States

[0:39] military forces led by the United States

[0:42] Marines. They are coming ashore here at

[0:45] this hour securing this airport. They're

[0:48] coming from ships just offshore in

[0:50] hovercraft and we can now hear

[0:52] helicopters offshore as well. Before too

[0:54] long there should be close to 1,000

[0:56] Marines on this airstrip. Then they'll

[0:58] begin to move north to secure the port

[1:01] and the city of Mogadishu. All of this

[1:03] began earlier this evening when Navy

[1:05] SEALs arrived to secure the beach and

[1:07] the coastal waters in a scene right out

[1:10] of a Peter Sellers movie, the first

[1:12] thing they encountered, not hostile

[1:14] forces, but the bright lights of the

[1:16] news media. Photographers on the beach

[1:19] to greet them and it fouled up their

[1:21] night vision and night vision goggles.

[1:23] They were not very happy about that. New

[1:25] rules have been established here.

[1:28] Earlier uh the diplomatic circles were

[1:30] cleared by special representative Robert

[1:33] Oakley who met with the various

[1:34] warlords. They agreed to cooperate with

[1:37] Operation Restore Hope. They hope that

[1:39] the members of their militia who are

[1:41] well armed will not try to engage the

[1:43] Marines in any kind of hostilities.

[1:47] So, first the airport has been cleared,

[1:50] then the port.

[1:56] The port has been cleared as well, ready

[1:58] for the Marine takeover. Robert Oakley,

[2:00] President Bush's special representative,

[2:02] made the rounds of the warlords today,

[2:04] briefing them on what to expect.

[2:11] The most powerful, General Aideed,

[2:13] broadcast a message to his followers.

[2:15] He said, "Welcome the Americans." But,

[2:18] what about his weapons?

[2:19] >> For the moment, I told to my people that

[2:22] they have to evacuate the airport and

[2:28] the port of Mogadishu.

[2:31] >> Most of the Somalian fighters are

[2:33] expected to cooperate. But, this is a

[2:35] country

[2:36] with a shooting waiting to happen.

[2:39] >> I think it's unrealistic to expect all

[2:41] the guns to disappear from the streets

[2:43] of Somalia.

[2:44] >> [snorts]

[2:44] >> They're not going to disappear from the

[2:45] streets of the major cities of the

[2:46] United States, but they shouldn't be

[2:48] used in a threatening way.

[2:50] >> Mr. Ambassador, there's already a lot of

[2:52] political pressure on the United States

[2:54] to stay and get involved in the

[2:56] restoration of some kind of government

[2:58] in Somalia. Is it going to be possible

[3:00] for the United States to come here and

[3:02] leave without doing that?

[3:04] >> Well, I think that we want to get a

[3:06] process started and in conjunction with

[3:09] the United Nations, who has the

[3:11] responsibility for that mission,

[3:13] we're doing what we can to encourage the

[3:15] Somalis to take their own future in

[3:17] their own hands, and I believe there's a

[3:18] tremendous desire to do that.

[3:21] >> There is an encouraging sign tonight.

[3:23] Prices on the gun market have dropped

[3:25] sharply in recent days. Demand is down.

[3:29] Many of the relief workers are, well,

[3:32] relieved.

[3:33] >> I I really want to see these troops. It

[3:34] means the care is going to be able to

[3:35] move some food for a change.

[3:37] >> Still, a small contingent of Swedish

[3:40] relief workers left Somalia tonight,

[3:43] just in case.

[3:46] >> And we're back live now at Mogadishu

[3:47] Airport in Somalia. This bizarre scene

[3:50] there on the tarmac of this airport,

[3:52] United States Marines have assembled a

[3:54] group of Somalis, most of whom were

[3:57] napping nearby here. They have them

[3:59] spread eagle on the tarmac. Presumably,

[4:02] they have been searched for weapons.

[4:04] This is a precautionary move on their

[4:05] part. This is a country that is heavily

[4:09] armed. Most of the young men in this

[4:12] country belong to one of the various

[4:14] guerrilla factions or another. The

[4:16] Marines have been nervous about the

[4:18] possibility of sniper activity. And so,

[4:21] what they've done here is roused these

[4:23] Somalis, put them on the ground in front

[4:25] of the international press. Those are

[4:27] still and television photographers that

[4:29] you see there.

[4:31] There is a kind of ironic twist. The

[4:34] Marines have come to save Somalia from

[4:37] itself, in effect.

[4:39] And now, the first thing they do is put

[4:41] Somalis on the ground.

[4:44] We don't know what infractions

[4:47] what violations these Somalis may be

[4:49] guilty

[4:50] >> Yeah, but let's go to the Pentagon now

[4:51] and NBC's Fred Francis. Fred.

[4:53] >> Tom, you're going to be seeing a lot of

[4:55] that in the next 24 to 48 hours. Anybody

[4:57] near that airport is going to get put on

[4:59] the ground, frisked. They're not going

[5:01] to permit anywhere any anybody anywhere

[5:03] close to that airport. The Marines that

[5:05] are landing,

[5:06] some 900

[5:08] a battalion landing team,

[5:10] will be doing this for the next two or

[5:12] three hours, spreading out from the

[5:13] airport,

[5:15] rousting anybody they find, and securing

[5:18] the area. And that's the plan. And to

[5:20] give you a wide overview of this whole

[5:24] humanitarian assault on the airport, to

[5:26] give you a view of what it looks like.

[5:28] The Marines, the plan was to bring

[5:30] Marines

[5:31] literally right in front of your

[5:33] position in

[5:34] in

[5:35] in hover vehicles about 800 yards from

[5:37] you, Tom. And

[5:40] those hover vehicles are to bring

[5:42] offloaded

[5:44] light armored vehicles which spread out

[5:46] around the airport. Helicopters will

[5:48] land and are starting to land now to the

[5:50] north of you. That's the other part of

[5:51] the plan. Each helicopter carrying about

[5:53] 50 Marines. And the third part of the

[5:55] plan, Tom, is to put Marines up at the

[5:57] port,

[5:58] facility, which is about 3 mi north of

[6:00] you, but not quite that many. The main

[6:02] priority is to secure this airfield so

[6:06] that in approximately 5 hours from now,

[6:08] the first big transports can begin

[6:10] landing there. Tom.

[6:13] >> Yeah, Fred, it's worth pointing out as

[6:14] we come back to the scene now at the

[6:16] airport, that Somalia is a nation, but

[6:19] it's a nation without a government. So,

[6:22] when the Marines come in here, if they

[6:24] are to help the relief agencies feed the

[6:26] people in the interior under the

[6:28] auspices of the United Nations, there is

[6:30] no formal governmental structure with

[6:32] which the military can deal.

[6:35] Therefore, I suppose there was no one to

[6:37] warn these young Somalis beyond the

[6:39] warlords that they ought not to be at

[6:41] the airport. Many of them may be just

[6:43] workers here or maybe people who are in

[6:46] effect squatting in this area because so

[6:48] much of this nation is homeless. So far

[6:51] we have seen no searching, no frisking

[6:53] for weapons, and the Somalis remain

[6:56] prone on the ground. Fred, go ahead.

[6:58] >> Yeah, Tom, what you're going to see is

[6:59] also today leaflets dropped,

[7:01] loudspeakers go through the streets.

[7:04] There will be warnings going on. Leave

[7:06] the Marines alone. What What we really

[7:08] are seeing, even though the the White

[7:09] House calls it a humanitarian mission,

[7:11] you're going to see a military

[7:12] government of sorts, and it's going to

[7:14] spread out from where you are right now

[7:16] throughout the whole country.

[7:18] Tom. There's a fine line between

[7:20] humanitarian mission and occupational

[7:22] military force, I suppose.

[7:24] One is necessary to feed people, the

[7:26] other is for necessary for the security

[7:29] of the personnel involved. We'll be back

[7:31] more with more from Somalia right after

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[8:40] >> Now that the Marines are here in

[8:41] Somalia, they'll find that this is a

[8:43] nation of a great many needs beyond

[8:45] hunger. Tonight, for you, we have this

[8:49] small example.

[8:52] This is a refugee camp in the middle of

[8:54] Mogadishu. Country people camped in the

[8:56] city looking for food.

[8:59] Beautiful people, patient, resourceful,

[9:02] a long way from home.

[9:05] There are primitive squatter camps like

[9:07] this throughout Mogadishu.

[9:08] These are Somalis who are refugees in

[9:10] their own land. And the relief agencies

[9:13] here believe that if the American forces

[9:15] are to do their job, they're going to

[9:16] have to relocate all of these people

[9:18] back to the countryside.

[9:21] These are not the most desperate people

[9:23] in Somalia,

[9:24] but their needs are also great.

[9:28] This man wanted me to help find a cover

[9:30] for his hut.

[9:32] Something rain proof.

[9:34] Simple shelter.

[9:37] This man wanted to sell his daughter.

[9:42] The children The children simply wanted

[9:44] attention.

[9:47] But they're not allowed to leave the

[9:48] camp.

[9:54] Not even the US Marines can fill all the

[9:56] needs of Somalia.

[10:00] The children who don't live in the camps

[10:02] in Somalia are not a lot better off.

[10:03] After all, this is a country

[10:05] without a government, without schools,

[10:07] in which most of the families have been

[10:09] decimated.

[10:10] This is a country in which childhood is

[10:12] mostly a matter of survival.

[10:15] Now, let's go to Jane Pauley in New York

[10:17] with more on today's news. Jane?

[10:19] >> Thanks, Tom. The man who will inherit

[10:22] the effort now underway in Somalia is

[10:24] Bill Clinton. He was in Washington today

[10:26] for a round of meetings with

[10:27] congressional Democrats. NBC's Andrea

[10:30] Mitchell at the Capitol has more now on

[10:32] the president-elect's day. Andrea?

[10:35] Jane, Bill Clinton came to Congress to

[10:37] talk about his domestic agenda. With

[10:39] thousands of troops heading to Somalia,

[10:41] he could not escape foreign policy.

[10:45] Clinton told Democrats that his top

[10:47] priority is one of the toughest problems

[10:48] facing Congress, healthcare reform. The

[10:51] key to deficit reduction and progress on

[10:53] the economy.

[10:54] In meetings with an unusually assertive

[10:56] freshman class, Democratic leaders and

[10:58] powerful chairmen, the president-elect

[11:01] said signs of economic recovery may be

[11:03] false and won't eliminate the need for

[11:05] long-term stimulus to spur economic

[11:07] growth.

[11:08] >> So, we are nowhere near to knowing that

[11:10] this

[11:11] short-term recession, which has gone on

[11:14] agonizingly long, is in fact over.

[11:18] Or a come We're coming out of it.

[11:20] >> Clinton also paid a courtesy call to the

[11:21] Supreme Court. He would like the

[11:23] opportunity to replace its aging

[11:25] conservative members with more liberal

[11:27] justices.

[11:29] But the press of foreign policy may

[11:30] override all other concerns, distracting

[11:33] Clinton from his domestic priorities. In

[11:35] Congress today, Clinton was caught

[11:37] already in the crossfire between members

[11:39] who want the United States to deliver

[11:40] food to Somalia and leave, and others

[11:43] who want to do more.

[11:44] >> we must not only bring uh

[11:46] uh food and medical assistance to the

[11:48] people of Somalia, uh but we must

[11:51] rebuild the infrastructure, help rebuild

[11:53] the country,

[11:54] and assist [snorts]

[11:56] in organizing a stable government.

[11:59] >> Clinton clearly prefers that a United

[12:01] Nations force, not US troops, stay to

[12:03] rebuild and stabilize the country.

[12:06] >> I think the question is whether that can

[12:07] be done in a second stage with a

[12:10] multinational peacekeeping force, rather

[12:13] than a peacemaking and

[12:15] uh alleviation of suffering force at a

[12:18] lower level with perhaps support from us

[12:20] uh offshore.

[12:22] >> Clinton said he knows that he has to

[12:23] tackle foreign policy right away. He

[12:26] would like to have an aggressive,

[12:28] disciplined foreign policy to avoid

[12:29] trouble, but his first challenge will be

[12:32] in Somalia, a policy he had no role in

[12:34] shaping. Jane.

[12:36] >> Thanks, Andrea. On Wall Street today,

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[14:18] Virginia, the vigil continues. The hours

[14:21] pass and hopes fade for the survival of

[14:23] eight men missing in Monday's mine

[14:25] explosion. NBC's Robert Hager is on

[14:28] scene tonight with the latest. Bob?

[14:30] >> Jane, the word here is it'll be at least

[14:32] tomorrow night, maybe a lot longer

[14:34] before rescuers can get back into this

[14:36] mine. This after they got so close last

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[14:44] Smoke drifted from the mouth of the mine

[14:46] all day. Evidence it was far too

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[14:51] One rescuer, Fred Dotson, speculated it

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[14:57] >> We don't know how long it's going to

[14:58] take, two, three days.

[15:01] Probably then we can go back and try

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[15:03] >> The force of the explosion below could

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[15:07] Storage sheds mangled, equipment askew.

[15:11] The mine's four shafts all burrow a mile

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[15:15] fifth shaft. The eight missing men were

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[15:22] A ninth miner, much nearer the entrance,

[15:24] crawled out and survived although

[15:26] seriously burned. Rescuers tediously

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[15:36] gas and agonizing 300 ft from where they

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[15:40] Rescuer Fred Dotson was among those who

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[15:44] >> You don't think about it like that.

[15:46] You got work to do and we

[15:48] we just do our work.

[15:50] >> John Mooneyhan was there, too.

[15:52] >> You train for 11 years and then when it

[15:54] comes down to it you got to do it.

[15:56] >> Louise Shively has two brothers missing.

[15:59] >> I know they're doing everything in the

[16:00] world possible to get them out.

[16:03] And I do appreciate everybody that's

[16:06] there working. They put their life in

[16:08] jeopardy.

[16:09] >> The plan now is to drill from the

[16:11] surface 1,000 ft down to obtain air

[16:14] samples and based on that decide when

[16:16] it's safe to start rescue operations

[16:18] again.

[16:19] The drilling began this afternoon. It

[16:21] should reach the shaft late tomorrow,

[16:24] but everyone acknowledges that it'd take

[16:25] a miracle for the miners to have

[16:27] survived. Jane.

[16:29] >> Thanks, Robert Hager in Norton,

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[18:52] >> The world is taking a crash course on

[18:54] Somalia, and helping with that education

[18:56] is the world's best-known Somali, Iman,

[18:59] a top international fashion model. Her

[19:02] life now as an American citizen is far

[19:05] removed from the suffering of her

[19:06] homeland, but as NBC's Lee Thompson

[19:09] reports, she is determined to help.

[19:12] >> Please help Somalia help itself.

[19:15] >> Aman has been lobbying hard for

[19:17] humanitarian aid for her country. In

[19:19] September, she returned to her homeland

[19:22] with a British television crew for the

[19:24] first time since she fled Somalia with

[19:26] her family 20 years ago. That

[19:28] documentary brought home the tragedy of

[19:30] the people of Somalia and also the hope.

[19:36] >> Good evening.

[19:37] >> Aman and TransAfrica argue that while

[19:39] the US and UN humanitarian effort in

[19:42] Somalia will get food to the starving,

[19:44] when the US leaves, war will just break

[19:47] out all over again.

[19:48] The only way to avoid it, they say, is

[19:51] to get all of the warring factions to a

[19:53] peace table.

[19:54] >> Somali problems need Somali solutions.

[19:57] America will never find the solution for

[19:59] for Somalia and they should not. But if

[20:01] there is no long political settlement,

[20:04] it will be pointless. It will start all

[20:06] over again from where we left it.

[20:08] >> Aman says former President Jimmy Carter

[20:10] and former UN envoy to Somalia, Mohamed

[20:13] Sahnoun, are the people the warlords

[20:16] trust.

[20:17] >> Do you think that Jimmy Carter and the

[20:19] ambassador though could get these

[20:21] warring clan leaders to get together,

[20:25] sit down at the same table and come up

[20:27] with a new government?

[20:28] >> Yes.

[20:29] We need somebody to go in there and open

[20:32] a dialogue. If we don't fulfill a

[20:34] long-term plan, we have really wasted

[20:37] time, maybe some lives

[20:40] of our troops. Everybody tries to tell

[20:42] me that everything has been done for

[20:44] Somalia and it failed. I refuse to

[20:46] believe that because it is not true.

[20:49] >> [laughter]

[20:49] >> Lee Thompson, NBC News, Washington.

[20:53] >> Lee Thompson will have more with Aman on

[20:55] a special Dateline NBC tonight at 10:00

[20:57] Eastern time, 9:00 Central, 7:00

[20:59] Pacific. John Chancellor joins me now

[21:02] for commentary tonight, Somalia. John.

[21:06] >> Mark this day, what is happening in

[21:09] Somalia is new and unusual. The UN

[21:12] Security Council has sent a large

[21:14] military force to Somalia because the

[21:17] human tragedy there is a threat to

[21:19] international peace and security.

[21:22] This is an argument that's hard to

[21:23] believe. Somalia is suffering from

[21:25] starvation and civil war and that's all.

[21:28] Somalia isn't a danger to its neighbors.

[21:30] Somalia's neighbors aren't a danger to

[21:32] it. Somalia's territory has no strategic

[21:35] value. Somalia is certainly not a threat

[21:38] to world peace, which is how the UN

[21:40] describes it. Why Somalia? [snorts]

[21:43] Why hasn't the UN done something about

[21:45] the civil war in the Sudan where

[21:47] millions could die of starvation? Where

[21:49] was the UN when Mozambique was torn by a

[21:52] civil war that left more than 3 million

[21:54] people in need of food. These countries

[21:56] are bigger and more important than

[21:58] Somalia, but the UN never said they were

[22:01] threats to world peace and security. In

[22:03] fact, the UN never sent a force of this

[22:06] size anywhere based on the argument that

[22:09] a human tragedy had created a threat to

[22:11] world peace until now.

[22:14] If Somalia is a threat, why not Bosnia?

[22:17] If war and starvation wrecks some other

[22:19] country, is that an internal matter or

[22:21] justification for an international

[22:23] force? How many dead children trigger

[22:25] United Nations intervention? Let's hope

[22:28] the operation in Somalia ends quickly

[22:30] because when it does, there are a lot of

[22:32] questions to be asked about how it got

[22:34] started. Jane. Thank you.

[22:36] >> Thanks John. Tom Brokaw will have more

[22:39] from Somalia when Nightly News continues

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[24:46] >> We're back now at the airport in

[24:47] Mogadishu, Somalia, where Operation

[24:49] Restore Hope is underway, and it's been

[24:52] a mixed beginning at the very least. We

[24:54] want to show you, first of all, the

[24:56] amphibious landing that began in the

[24:58] pre-dark pre-dawn darkness. Uh dawn is

[25:00] now just beginning to come up over this

[25:03] northeastern African port. We can see

[25:06] lots of armored personnel carriers,

[25:09] Marines getting off there. They're

[25:11] beginning to secure the airport.

[25:14] But the amphibious landing will put

[25:16] about 900 Marines onshore, a combination

[25:19] of hovercraft, the armored personnel

[25:21] carriers, and the helicopters that have

[25:24] been landing as well. A support task

[25:26] force of 11 ships offshore. They'll also

[25:29] be taking the port north of here.

[25:31] Earlier when the SEALs arrived to secure

[25:34] the beach, they were met by

[25:35] photographers and they were embarrassed

[25:37] by that. And then we had an unusual

[25:39] incident here. The first contingent of

[25:41] Marines who came into the airport

[25:43] rousted some sleeping Somalis,

[25:45] spread-eagled them here on the tarmac in

[25:47] front of everyone else, and kept them on

[25:49] the ground at gunpoint. Finally, the

[25:52] commanding general of the US Marines

[25:53] came and conferred with his Pakistani

[25:55] counterpart, who's been running the UN

[25:57] force here. Apparently, General Shahin

[26:00] from Pakistan said, "These are not

[26:02] people who are risks. They have been

[26:04] working here. They have been in the

[26:05] interior."

[26:06] And after some time on the ground, those

[26:08] Somalis, who after all are in their own

[26:11] country,

[26:12] they were released.

[26:15] Uh one of them had been handcuffed and

[26:16] they had to find the keys and get him on

[26:19] get him released as well.

[26:21] Uh the Marines have spread out around

[26:22] the perimeter. We're told at the front

[26:24] gate they're stopping all cars coming

[26:25] through. And they mean business. Uh

[26:28] a television camera crew from the

[26:30] Canadian Broadcasting Company came in.

[26:33] Uh we have to be driven around here by

[26:35] the locals.

[26:36] Uh the correspondent said to the driver,

[26:39] "Make sure you have no guns." The driver

[26:42] thought he could hide his guns beneath

[26:44] the front seat. Uh they were stopped at

[26:46] the gate. The Marines pulled everybody

[26:48] out of the car, made them spread-eagle

[26:49] across the hood of the car, searched it,

[26:51] found the weapons, and routed the

[26:53] Somalis, turning them away from the

[26:55] airport. So, this area will be secured

[26:58] in probably kind of a roughshod fashion.

[27:00] At the outset, there going to be some uh

[27:02] bad moments for both sides, no doubt.

[27:05] What everyone hopes, of course, is that

[27:06] it will not flare up into any kind of a

[27:09] shooting incident. We want to remind you

[27:11] that here on NBC, we'll have continuing

[27:14] coverage throughout the evening of this

[27:16] extraordinary event, a combination of uh

[27:20] television, live television coverage

[27:22] around the world, and this very

[27:24] large-scale amphibious landing that will

[27:26] lead to a humanitarian mission to the

[27:28] interior of this beleaguered nation.

[27:31] We'll have a special report tonight on

[27:33] Dateline NBC, and then, of course,

[27:36] continuing coverage tomorrow morning on

[27:38] all of the NBC news programs, beginning

[27:40] with NBC News at Sunrise.

[27:42] For now, the Marines are on shore,

[27:44] Operation Restore Hope is underway. I'm

[27:46] Tom Brokaw at the Mogadishu Airport in

[27:48] Somalia, saying goodnight for now. For

[27:51] Jane Pauley and me, we'll see you later

[27:53] on Dateline NBC.

[28:25] >> Tonight, a Dateline special, Somalia. US

[28:27] troops arrive, and NBC is there. See it

[28:30] happen live. Jane Pauley, Stone

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