1. Central Enterprise will test the capabilities of tactical air operations over western europe and the North Sea... 2. However, Hercules will still have to make resupplying runs to Saudi Arabia for so long as the air exclusion operation lasts. 3. Britain was today considering a United States request to look at ways of joining an air operation to parachute relief supplies into Bosnia. 4. As soon as the beginning of the pullout can be verified, NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana was to announce suspension of hostile air operations. 5. As NATO continued to beef up its air operations, it also made plans for an oil and fuel embargo on Yugoslavia. 6. Both the surveillance flights off the Chinese coast and the air interdiction operations to fight drug traffickers have been suspended in the wake of the two incidents. 7. All three pilots continue to fly regular missions, as part of a vastly expanded NORAD air defense operation that has fighter jets airborne at all times. 8. British officials also said they were prepared to join U.S. forces in air operations in the crisis with Yugoslavia over Kosovo, had it been warranted. 9. But against the backdrop of recent history, the U.S.-led air operations are being viewed by most Arabs and Muslims with an uneasy ambivalence. 10. But Jertz said later that air operations continued throughout the day. |