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Aware of these constraints, some military and political leaders are calling for unconventional approaches. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher argues for arming Bosnian irregulars, who are badly outgunned by the Serbs, much as Washington helped the Afghan mujahedin. Colonel William Taylor, senior military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, thinks an air attack on power plants, fuel tanks and military posts in Belgrade could take the heart out of the Serbs' fight. Others advocate an allied threat to destroy any Serbian plane, tank or piece of artillery that moves...
...what political objectives the allies set. Even the minimum objective -- securing the area around the airport so that relief flights can land safely -- might require taking out Serbian gun positions and tanks in the surrounding hills. Guesses of the force needed range from 45,000 to 100,000. French Colonel Jean-Louis Dufour, author of a book on the gulf war, thinks that it would take 75,000 troops grouped in three contingents, each including two tank regiments and two artillery regiments...
INTERVIEW: Colonel Cammermeyer Comes...
...Endeavour astronauts last week when they rescued Intelsat, a 4.5-ton 17-ft.-long telecommunications satellite, from its useless orbit 230 miles above the earth. In a record 8-hr. 29-min. space walk, with the world rolling by beneath them, Commander Pierre Thuot, Richard Hieb and Lieut. Colonel Thomas Akers wrestled the satellite into the shuttle's cargo bay and attached a rocket booster that would enable it to achieve its proper orbit 22,300 miles high...
...FORMER KGB AGENT SEEKS EMPLOYMENT IN SIMILAR FIELD. Tel: Paris 1-442-506 . . ." When spies have to resort to classified ads in French newspapers, times are clearly tough. Now 500 or so former Soviet intelligence agents have decided to network. Headed by onetime KGB Colonel Igor Prelin, the group has < even started its own publishing arm, called Intel. Among the projects in the works: a memoir by a KGB agent who obtained American nuclear secrets, and a book by another who had dealings with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to November...