Word: airlift
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Air Force announced Thursday it has relieved three commanders in Europe following an investigation into the disastrous crash of the military aircraft carrying Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and 34 others. The three commanders are the top officers of the Air Force 86th Airlift Wing, based at Rumstein Air Base in Germany. Brigadier General William Stevens, commander of the 86th, Colonel Roger W. Hansen, vice-commander, and Colonel John E. Mazurowski, operations group commander, were relieved of their duties on Wednesday. Following the investigation of the CT-43 crash, Major General Charles Heflebower, commander of the 17th...
...graced Sarajevo for four months was shattered as the Serbs resumed shelling without letup. As a result, at the time the Bosnian offensive started, the city was experiencing one of its most dispiriting moments since the war began in 1992. Many roads into town had been closed. The airlift, by which half the city's food supplies are delivered, had been suspended for nine weeks. The Serbs had shut off all gas, electricity and running water...
...people to stay in Panama at U.S. detention camps for a six-month period. Nearly 8,000 Cuban children and close relatives have since qualified to emigrate to the U.S., provided they have full financial sponsorship. To transfer the remaining refugees by the March 6 deadline, American forces will airlift out 500 people almost every...
...West-sponsored peace plan by October 15, President Clinton says he will ask the U.N. for permission to start shipping arms to their enemies -- the Muslims. Currently the U.N. has imposed an arms embargo against all warring factions in the former Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, the on-again, off-again humanitarian airlift to Sarajevo was suspended today after three U.N. planes were struck by bullets. It wasn't clear who was responsible...
That finally propelled President Clinton to action. Since the beginning of April the U.S. has contributed just over $150 million in aid to Rwanda but stoutly resisted leading a full-scale relief effort. On Friday Clinton ordered a round-the-clock airlift of food, water and medicine and dispatched the first of what could soon be up to 4,000 soldiers to distribute it throughout the border regions. The President was moved, he said, by the reports that Rwandans in the camps were dying at the rate of one a minute. "In the days to come," said the President...