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Just hours after the first three U.S. C-130s dumped their cargo from 10,000 ft., Serb guns went into action. Artillery and mortars pounded dozens of small villages in the area, then followed up with tanks that blasted and set fire to the ruined houses and mosques. Thousands of civilians fled into the frozen countryside...
...INNOCUOUS involvement in Bosnia, the Clinton Administration may have found it. Since first proposing a U.S. air drop of food and medical supplies into eastern Bosnia, the White House and Pentagon have made continuous modifications to head off trouble. Plans for fighter escorts were scrapped. U.S. C-130 cargo planes flying out of Germany's Rhein-Main air base were to make the drops at night from an altitude of 10,000 ft. or more, to minimize any chance of being hit by ground fire. And they were to be preceded by planes dropping leaflets telling ground forces what...
...again blockading truck convoys that lately have been getting through to some besieged towns in eastern Bosnia. Worst of all, there is a widespread fear that the U.S. will be pulled into deeper involvement in the Bosnian bloodbath. Serbs, or Muslims eager for American intervention, might shoot down a cargo plane, triggering a military response. One U.S. congressional staff member also draws a parallel to air drops of supplies to Iraqi Kurds in 1991; they proved ineffective, and the U.S. and allies had to send in ground troops to succor the Kurds. Clinton stoutly insists that the operation will...
...with good reason. Some Bosnian Serbs first warned that they might attack the relief flights, then predicted darkly that Muslims would fire the shots and blame the Serbs, in hopes of drawing greater U.S. intervention. To forestall any such provocations, the U.S. decided against having fighter jets escort the cargo planes. But in Belgrade the Yugoslav armed forces general staff declared that the whole operation was just a smoke screen for U.S. "direct military involvement" on the side of the Bosnian Muslims...
...argued against the goal of feeding starving people, but the airdrops raise tricky problems. The quantity of supplies carried by the aircraft is limited; they will supplement, not replace, the aid brought in by truck. The deliveries are to be made by a fleet of 18 C-130 Hercules cargo planes based at the Rhein-Main air base outside Frankfurt, each capable of hauling 12 tons of supplies at a time; the land convoys usually carry from 60 to 100 tons. Dropped from altitudes of 10,000 ft., to stay above the range of antiaircraft fire, the parachuted supplies, says...