The Road to Hell (57 page)

U.S. Embassy, in Mogadishu,
30
-31,
37
-39,
58
,
89
; evacuation of,
188
; new construction,
81
,
240
; shooting of marine at,
186

U.S. House of Representatives.
See also individual representatives
. Agriculture Committee,
191
; Appropriations Committee,
46
-47; ethanol and,
199
; Foreign Agriculture and Hunger Subcommittee,
191
; Penny-Grandy amendment,
189
-92; Ways and Means Committee,
199

USIS (U.S. Information Service), Somalia and,
37

U.S. Marines,
272

U.S. Marines, Somalia and,
218
,
221
,
254
,
284
,
287
; arrival,
208
-9,
212
,
214
,
235
,
253
,
255
; in Baidoa,
14
,
18
; “debate”

U.S. Marines, Somalia and (cont.) with Cassidy in U.S.,
27
-29,
82
; in Mogadishu,
30
,
37
,
85
,
212
,
217
,
235
,
255
; shooting of marine at embassy,
186
; withdrawal,
203
-4,
213
,
235

U.S. Senate.
See also individual senators
. African Affairs Subcommittee,
208
; Agriculture and Forestry Committee,
196
; Food for Peace and,
196

Vietnam, Food for Peace and,
194
,
197
,
201

Vietnam War,
3
,
216
n,
238
; My Lai massacre,
277

Visman, Emma,
267

VSO, in Kenya,
261

Vulliamy,Ed,
219

Walcott, Dave,
235
-36

Wall Street Journal
,
265

Ward, Ed,
229

Wardigley neighborhood (Mogadishu),
32

War on Poverty, agroindustry and,
198

Warsame, Saado Ali,
186

Warsangeli clan,
100
,
10
On

Washington Post
,
159
,
160
,
207
-10,
229
,
230
,
265
n,
277

Water: in Ethiopia,
108
,
109
; in Kenya,
9
-10; Qorioley irrigation project,
44
,
55
-57,
59
-67,
69
-74,
77
-78,
80
-81,
83
,
168
; in Somalia,
21
,
44
,
55
-57,
59
-67,
69
-74,
77
-78,
80
-81,
83
,
88
,
94
,
168
,
170

Watson, Murray,
125
-30,
133
,
211
,
212

Waugh, Evelyn,
260
-61

Wells, H. G.,
5
-7

Western Somalia Liberation Front (WSLF),
36
,
133
,
282
; food stolen by,
94
,
97
-99,
101
; refugees and,
94
,
97
-99,
101
,
102
,
118

WFP (World Food Program),
205
; CARE and,
135
; number of refugees and,
129
,
130
; Somalia and,
93
,
133
-35,
167
,
181
,
185
,
188
,
203
,
242
,
284

White, Peter,
90

White Man's Burden, The
(Kipling),
262

WHO (World Health Organization), Somalia and,
187
-88

Wilde, Oscar,
13

Williams, Jeff,
149
-50

Williams, Roy,
209

William the Conqueror, king of England,
276

Winnick, Pamela R.,
145
-48,
264
-65

Wittsel, Phyllis,
148
-49,
152
-53

World Bank,
93
,
170
-71;
Food Import Dependence in Somalia: Magnitude, Causes, and Policy Options
(Farzin),
171
-73; Somalia and,
174
n,
175
,
211

World Vision,
139
,
161
,
271
; advertisements for,
3

World War I,
277

World War II,
192

Yugoslavia,
207
,
246
,
255
,
265
; Food for Peace and,
195

Yusuf, Abdi Ahmed,
107
-12,
114
-15

Yusuf, Abdullahi,
99
,
117

Zaire,
11
,
259
.
See also
Rwanda, war in. AmeriCares and,
264
; Bukavu,
267
; CARE and,
264
; Caritas and,
267
; Goma,
258
,
263
-67,
269
,
272
,
279
; Operation Blessing and,
265
-66; Save the Children and,
267
; UN and,
266
,
266
n; U.S. Department of State and,
174
,
265
n

Zimbabwe, UN troops from,
220
,
237
,
240
,
249

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