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...skeptics doubt there can be any benign intervention, at least one that is also effective. Some supplies dropped at night from that high are going to fall outside target areas. Analysts are worried that Serbs may use the air drops as an excuse for again blockading truck convoys that lately have been getting through to some besieged towns in eastern Bosnia. Worst of all, there is a widespread fear that the U.S. will be pulled into deeper involvement in the Bosnian bloodbath. Serbs, or Muslims eager for American intervention, might shoot down a cargo plane, triggering a military response...
...argued against the goal of feeding starving people, but the airdrops raise tricky problems. The quantity of supplies carried by the aircraft is limited; they will supplement, not replace, the aid brought in by truck. The deliveries are to be made by a fleet of 18 C-130 Hercules cargo planes based at the Rhein-Main air base outside Frankfurt, each capable of hauling 12 tons of supplies at a time; the land convoys usually carry from 60 to 100 tons. Dropped from altitudes of 10,000 ft., to stay above the range of antiaircraft fire, the parachuted supplies, says...
McKay "was sitting in her vehicle, parked at a curb, when her vehicle was struck in the rear" by Landry on July 26, 1991, who was operating a truck leased from Ryder Truck Rental, according to the court documents...
Escobari said he had viewed an operator's report of motor vehicle damages which reported the truck's speed as under five miles per hour at the time of the crash...
...Landry] was turning off Mass. Ave. down Dunster St. and in trying to move between an illegally parked truck and the plaintiff's car, he hit the plaintiff's vehicle," Escobari said...