Word: airfields
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...days after the Serbs overran the Srebrenica enclave, all but a few of its 42,000 Muslims had been expelled. Thousands of them were in Tuzla or just outside, crowded into a makeshift tent city in appalling conditions at a U.N.-controlled airfield. The daytime sun was scorching, the smell overpowering. Wounded men on homemade wooden crutches hobbled amid hordes of kerchiefed old women in knitted vests as children shouted and played. Other thousands camped along the roadsides. Workers for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees put up temporary shelters and passed out food, but they were unable to keep...
...University denials came amidst reports that the private airplane ostensibly carrying Salinas from Mexico landed in an airfield outside Boston on Sunday afternoon...
...NATO's biggest attack in its 45-year history, 30 warplanes today bombed a base where Serbs equipped planes with napalm bombs used last week against the Bosnians in Bihac. TheNATO raidfollowed Saturday's U.N. resolution specifically authorizing an attack on Serb-held Croatia, the airfield location. U.S., British, French and Dutch jets were deployed in the air strike -- NATO's seventh since the Bosnian war started in April 1992 -- which will put the base out of commission for just a month. Yet, it represented a dramatic departure from previous "pinprick" NATO attacks in which one or two warplanes bombed...
...underscored his plea by having Duperval help him raise Haiti's flag at the National Palace. Also today, U.S. forces reported the third suicide by an American soldier during Operation Uphold Democracy, this one apparently the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Port-au-Prince military airfield...
...Defense Department dispatched four amphibious warships carrying 2,000 combat-ready Marines to the waters off the coast of Haiti. The Pentagon revealed that three weeks ago Army Rangers and Navy Seals had conducted practice runs for an invasion of Haiti: staging a mock attack on an isolated airfield at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida and "capturing" a port along the Gulf coast. The exercise, which one military expert described as a "final rehearsal," was similar to maneuvers conducted just before the U.S. invaded Panama in December of 1989 to overthrow Manuel Noriega...