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...plush stocking embroidered with the name Chris and stuffed with a toy Santa hangs inside Corporal Christopher Sotak's vehicle. The 23-year-old received it from his mother in the last mail shipment before Thanksgiving. On Dec. 25, "we'll get a bag with diced turkey and gravy," says First Sergeant Steven Fisher, 37, Sotak's crewmate. "Christmas will be when you get back home...
...real work of bringing food to starving people has barely begun. On Saturday, the U.S. escorted its first food convoy, a group of four trucks that delivered its cargo to northern Mogadishu. American helicopter gunships and armored personnel carriers escorted the shipment, which had been idled in port for several days, reportedly because of a disagreement between U.S. troops and U.N. peacekeepers over who was in charge. Other relief shipments remained blocked in the city, in large part the result of bad communications between soldiers and relief workers...
Half the estimated $100 million worth of BOSNIAN RELIEF SHIPMENTS sent to Sarajevo this year have been seized by Serbian troops. U.N. officials have allowed the thefts to take place. Heavily armed Serbian forces surrounding Sarajevo airport skim a large share of every relief shipment as a form of safe-passage payment, carefully selecting all the meat, telephone gear, fire- fighting equipment as well as the newsprint being donated for an independent paper...
...vote (with only Israel and Romania supporting the U.S.) was a protest against newly toughened U.S. sanctions. At the Mexican border, the Pastors for Peace truck convoy confronted U.S. Customs officials and, eyeball- to-eyeball, the government blinked. The shipment sailed unhampered to Cuba. A second one is planned...
...even as NATO officials in Brussels contemplate plans for enforcing the ban. Fear of fighting yet to come compelled the Security Council to approve sending monitors to Macedonia, and President Bush urged the same for neighboring Kosovo, where tensions are high between Serbs and the ethnic Albanian majority. A shipment of construction material did reach Montenegro to prevent some 7 million tons of toxic sludge from breaking through a dangerously weakened dam and flowing into the Danube River system...