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DIED. DOUG MCCLURE, 59; former broncobuster and star of TV westerns such as The Virginian and The Overland Trail; of lung cancer; in Sherman Oaks, California...
...Overland Park, Kansas...
...soldiers to do the dying. According to a senior French official, George Bush last week telephoned President Francois Mitterrand to try out an idea for joint air strikes against Serbian positions around Sarajevo and along the road to Split, the Adriatic port from which relief supplies might be sent overland. Mitterrand, says the official, refused because that might expose the 250 French soldiers flown into Sarajevo airport last week to Serbian reprisals. White House officials snort that Bush proposed no such thing. But the story illustrates the unwillingness of Europeans to commit ground troops unless American G.I.s share the risks...
Some experts doubt that a full-scale airlift could bring in enough food to do more than help Sarajevo's 400,000 residents survive. A genuine end to the - siege might require opening an overland corridor from Split. That would be a still more difficult task if relief convoys negotiating shell-pocked roads also had to shoot their way past Serbian roadblocks...
...life at risk, we had the company at risk. My children could have lost a father, putting it on a very personal basis when I was in there in the prisons and what have you. When Paul and Bill and the rescue team were coming out overland, see, they'd done the impossible. They'd got out of prison. And just sitting there and waiting for them to get to the Turkish border, that was stress...