United Nations Operation in Somalia II

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    Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.
    United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.

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    Waiting for the race to become official, he began to feel as if he had as much effect on the final outcome of the operation as a single piece of a jumbo jigsaw puzzle has to its predetermined final design. Only the addition of the missing fragments of the puzzle would reveal if the picture was as he guessed it would be.
    Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)