1. For the second day, heavy fighting prevented any aid flights reaching Sarajevo from Zagreb, the Croatian capital. 2. At the Tirana airport, forklifts were flown in to unload backed-up aid flights. 3. Before humanitarian aid flights can arrive at the airport in Mazar-i-Sharif, the runways must be repaired. 4. Air traffic continued Sunday into the Sarajevo airport, reopened to aid flights. 5. Aid flights have been stopped for two months now and no food is getting in overland. 6. But U.N. officials said the Sudanese government had pledged late last month not to attack official aid flights. 7. Clinton said the Kigali airfield would be used to take the pressure off the tiny airstrip in Goma, which has been overwhelmed with aid flights. 8. Meddoff said he told Clinton that he wanted the White House to renew aid flights to Cuba, which had been suspended earlier in the year. 9. One option might be to send fighter planes to escort aid flights and take out anti-aircraft emplacements and shoot down the Stingers. 10. The agreement also stops short of lifting the siege of the city, permitting only aid flights and convoys to enter and leave the city. |
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