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Russian President Boris

Yeltsin dissolved

parliament in September

and announced new

elections in order to end

his long-running feud with

hard-liners. In a televised

speech that stunned the

world, Yeltsin said he was

dismissing the legislature

to pull the country out of

its political and economic

crisis. Riots broke out and

Yeltsin called in the army

to restore peace.

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A multinational force, led

by the United States,

arrived in war-torn

Somalia. The goal was to

help feed the starving

population and bring

peace to a country which

had already lost 350,000

lives to fighting and

famine. Considered the

most powerful of the

warlords, Mohamed
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Farrah Aidid was blamed

for numerous attacks on

the military.

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