CNN - various reports - 1992-12-05
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[0:03] This is CNN.
[0:06] >> Checking the hour's top stories.
[0:08] President Bush ordered about 28,000
[0:10] troops today to Somalia to help in the
[0:12] relief effort there. In a national
[0:14] address, Mr. Bush said their purpose was
[0:16] humanitarian, but he warned Somalian
[0:18] gangs and troops that the troops would
[0:20] take whatever military action necessary
[0:22] to safeguard lives. Support troops from
[0:25] Meguire Air Force Base are leaving for
[0:27] Somalia tonight. A Pentagon official
[0:29] says support personnel are often among
[0:30] the first to leave to help pave the way
[0:32] for the larger deployment. That's
[0:34] expected to begin on Monday. The US
[0:36] force will consist largely of 16,000
[0:38] Marines from Camp Pendleton and 10,000
[0:40] Army troops from Fort Drum. Many Somali
[0:43] reportedly are pleased with the
[0:45] announcement just today. Fighting forced
[0:46] the port in the capital of Moadishu to
[0:49] close down holding up 12,000 tons of
[0:51] grain or enough to feed about 1 million
[0:54] people for a month.
[0:56] In our focal point tonight, we examine
[0:58] the subject of hunger. It is an age-old
[1:02] worldwide problem. CNN's John Man
[1:04] examines the destruction hunger wrecks
[1:06] and why it has left almost nothing of
[1:10] Somalia.
[1:16] The picture of starvation, a picture
[1:18] that's moved the world to take military
[1:20] action in Somalia. It is a picture of
[1:23] suffering through the agonizing stages
[1:26] of hunger from malnutrition to
[1:28] starvation to death. We see the kind the
[1:32] clinical picture of dramatic skin and
[1:35] bone extremely wasted pictures coming
[1:40] out of Somalia in recent days. And the
[1:43] process is basically a gradual wasting
[1:46] of the soft tis