Word: airdropping
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...Bosnia we are pushing the limits of cooperation by failing to support the Vance Owen peace plan and conducting an independent airdrop of food. But come May 1, the U.S. is voluntarily giving up its leadership status to a multilateral force that really is multilateral...
Though officials have not determined who was responsible for last week's World Trade Center explosion, speculation that Balkan terrorists had planted the bomb underscored the potential consequences of getting involved in the region. At the same time, Pentagon critics pointed out that the airdrop puts American prestige on the line. If the limited operation proved ineffective, then what? Take greater risks to deliver food and medicines to suffering Bosnians? Or back away from responsibility? Initially wary of a venture he feared might jeopardize the safety of peacekeepers on the ground, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali eventually endorsed...
...Turkish government, Baker reported, was especially agitated. Turkish President Turgut Ozal confirmed as much in a phone call to Bush on Monday morning. Turkey could not take in the refugees, said Ozal, and American efforts to get aid to them in the mountains by airdrop or helicopter were insufficient; more were dying every...
Eisenhower could hardly help being troubled. "I went to my tent alone and sat down to think," he said. If he canceled the airdrop, that would leave the invaders of Utah Beach vulnerable to a German counterattack. He decided to stick to his plan. There is often, at such times, a sense of fatalism, of something preordained. General Matthew B. Ridgway, commander of the 82nd Airborne, felt it no less strongly. "Sometimes, at night," he recalled, "it was almost as if I could hear the assurance that God the Father gave to another soldier, named Joshua: 'I will not fail...
Desert gusts maim paratroopers in mass airdrop...