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...military policeman, Martin John Begosh of Rockville, Md., became the first American injured in the Bosnia peace mission when he drove over a land mine. But the mission is being delayed by a more powerful adversary than mines: Mother Nature. Efforts to build a pontoon bridge across the Sava River, so that the bulk of the U.S. deployment could proceed from Croatia into Bosnia, were swamped by the swollen river's floodwaters, which rose more than 5 ft. in 24 hours, sweeping away materiel, stranding trucks and soaking G.I.s...
...would look pretty bad if they turned to Europe's Airbus to build the planes after what the U.S. did for them in the war." Saudia, the national airline of Saudi Arabia, will purchase 23 777-200 twin jets and five 747-400 jumbo jets from Boeing, and 29 MD-90s and four MD-11s from McDonnell Douglas...
...radio died. "This was the scariest thing I've ever seen," says Dimas, who with his colleagues was guiding 295 planes. A 20-year-old generator and its replacement had blown. During the 35-min. blackout, a United Airlines Boeing 757 nearly collided with an Alaska Airlines MD-80. Hundreds of flights were grounded...
Ellwood, 42, could not be reached for comment yesterday at his home in Bethesda, Md. He will return to Cambridge on August...
...today that newly-released documents from Foster's office, which have raised some questions about the Clinton tax returns, would underscore the argument that "the White House certainly had reason to worry about the Department of Justice search of Vincent Foster's office." Banking Committee member Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) countered that any mistakes by administration officials in the aftermath of Foster's death were due to the "emotional shock they had experienced." TIME's Suneel Ratan notes that in his testimony today, Hubbell made "a calculated effort to support the White House line. What they're trying to show...