Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Iman urges U.S. to help ease starvation Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 14:23:38 EST Message-ID: \SE A;TOP OF THE NEWS;NATION \HD Iman urges U.S. to help ease starvation \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS The United States should "flex its muscle" to get U.N. soldiers deployed against the looters keeping food and medicine from the starving people of Somalia, high fashion model Iman Abdul Majid said yesterday. America's best known Somali immigrant, who is known as Iman, said at a news conference that enough food and medicine has been shipped to her homeland, "but it serves no purpose when it is looted and people have no money to buy it on the black market." The U.N. Security Council has approved use of U.N. forces. As the council's most influential member, the United States "can flex its muscle to use those troops," said Iman, who visited her suffering homeland last month. Five hundred U.N. soldiers from Pakistan reached Mogadishu, the Somalian capital, in late September, but they remain undeployed because of objections from Somalian warlords. Canadian, Belgian and Nigerian forces are also in readiness, she said. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM