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...major cause of famine in Somalia is not the lack of food, but rather the problems with food distribution. Roving gangs often intercept food before it can reach the areas where it is needed immediately. A convoy of several thousand armed troops, similar to what U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is proposing, would ensure that food is delivered quickly and efficiently...
...last thing the 1,500 United Nations troops on duty in Bosnia-Herzegovina needed was another lesson in what a thankless task they face. They got one anyway, when two French soldiers were killed and five more injured as their convoy, carrying supplies from Belgrade, was raked by machine-gun fire near Sarajevo's airport. The U.N. commander in Sarajevo, Egyptian Brigadier General Hussein Ali Abdul-Razek, blamed the attack on "irresponsible elements" among the Bosnian government troops loyal to President Alija Izetbegovic. Abdul- Razek's deputy, French Lieut. General Philippe Morillon, called it "a clear provocation by people...
...Split to Sarajevo, but that idea was rejected two weeks ago. France, Britain and Italy have said they are ready to contribute forces of around 2,000 soldiers each, and NATO is now considering using a total of 10,000 troops, not to hold open a corridor but to convoy road shipments to Sarajevo. The U.S. says it is willing to contribute air units but no ground forces. (See related story on page...
...women and children into a basement and tossed in hand grenades, then joked that the screams of the dying sounded "just like a mosque." Ferid Omerovic, 37, is one of 9,000 from the Bosnian city of Bosanski Novi who reached a Croatian refugee camp in a U.N. convoy. "Life turned to hell two months ago," he says. "All Muslims were fired from their jobs, we had no money to buy food, and we couldn't get humanitarian help. Our houses were looted by Serbs -- our neighbors." He was detained in a stadium with hundreds of other men; left...
...well within the kill range of a nuclear assault on the capital. With a 100-megaton weapon, a helicopter anywhere within 50 miles of the White House would have been destroyed in flight, the report noted. There were also unexpected hazards. During one doomsday exercise, Eisenhower was driven by convoy from Washington. As he neared the site, a truck loaded with pigs entered the narrow road. The convoy halted and authorities forced the truck to inch backward up the mountain and past the site's entrance. Eisenhower laughed that such elaborate plans could be ruined by pigs...