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World IN BRIEF : BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA : U.S., Allies Weigh Airlift of Food, Aid

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

President Clinton said in Washington that the United States and its allies are drafting plans for an airlift of food and aid to remote areas of beleaguered Bosnia-Herzegovina, according to a report in the New York Times. An announcement could come as early as today, Clinton told reporters. In Bosnia, a U.N. convoy held up for days by hostile Serbs and mined roads finally delivered food to the besieged eastern Bosnian town of Zepa. The convoy of 10 Belgian aid trucks carrying flour, other food and medicine arrived to a “tumultuous welcome,” said Tony Land, head of U.N. relief operations in Sarajevo. But no food was distributed in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital, despite appeals to the City Council by the Bosnian government to end a boycott of U.N. aid called Feb. 12 in solidarity with the eastern enclaves.

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