Airlift Resumes While Fighting Rages in Bosnia
U.N. peacekeepers dodged mortar shells to get an airlift of food and medicine back in action Tuesday, while a European Community mediator pleaded with both sides in Bosnia to stop fighting.
Officials of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Muslim-led government reported scores of deaths in and around Sarajevo.
There were reports that Gorazde, 30 miles southeast of the capital, continued to be hit hard by besieging Serbs.
Lord Carrington, the European Community’s chief negotiator in Yugoslavia, said both sides were at fault, but he particularly criticized Muslims for the failure of a truce that was supposed to have begun Sunday.
At Sarajevo’s airport, closed Monday because of the gunfire, the aid operation was briefly suspended Tuesday after a mortar round landed near an airport control post manned by U.N. soldiers, a representative of the U.N.’s refugee agency said. No one was hurt, and flights resumed.
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