European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The vol. 51, no. 311 35c wednesday february 24,1093 b d 8693 a . Readies Bosnia Airdrop for this week official says Balkan powder a . Scal Cine a bar signals to a . Plane loaded with Relief supplies in Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina. Washington a the . Military is read to begin dropping Relief supplies of food and Medicine to the starving in Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina by week s end a senior defense department official says. The official speaking on condition of anonymity said late monday that an execute order had not been signed by defense Secretary los Aspin who is hospitalized with breathing problems. List he said military planners had Laid out their contingency plans for presi Dent Clinton Over the weekend. We re going to do it the official said of the air drop. As a further Indica Tion that plans for the operation were proceeding . Officials at nato said the United states notified the allies monday that it intended to go ahead with the air drop later in the  arc Many serious drawbacks touch Airdrop the official noted but give the desperate Situa Tion in the War ravaged Region of the for Mer Yugoslavia it better than doing  announcement was expected from the White House once Clinton gave the go ahead the official said the president planned to meet tuesday with . Secretary general Boutro Boutros Ghali Clinton was asked in Everett wash., on monday if he was ready to announce the Airlift. It s a possibility. See Airdrop on Page 2 see related . Labels rape by serbs weapon of War Geneva a the , human rights commission on tuesday singled out rape by serbian forces in Bosnia an Herzegovina As a War crime and said perpetrators must be brought to trial. In a Resolution passed by voice vote the 53-nation panel voiced outrage that the systematic practice of rape is being used As a weapon of War against Muslim women and children As part of ethnic cleansing by serbian forces in Bosnia. On monday the . Security Council voted to set up an International tribunal to prosecute people accused of War atrocities which would include rape in the former Yugoslavia. Many Legal experts believe rape is Al ready covered by the Geneva conventions which established minimum Stan Dards of humanity in warfare. But . Delegate Geraldine a. Ferraro introducing the draft at the commis Sion s annual meeting said confirming rape As a War crime was important. I speak for All the children an women in the former Yugoslavia that cannot speak for themselves said Ferraro a former new York congresswoman who was Democrat Walter of Mohd Alc running mate in 1984. Kupsc As a weapon of War is Barbaric Ferraro said. It is no  several International missions to for Mer Yugoslavia including one supervised by the commission s special investigator. Tadusz Mazowicki have documented ipe in Bosnia. The text condemned rape and abuse of women and children in former Yugoslavia which in the circumstances constitutes a War  . Member males were urged tomake sure that All people directly in Soo . On Page 2 300 of leave Somalia in a matter of Days by Craig Marti staff writer More than 300 members of v corps and 7th med ical come s task Force 5-158 that deployed to War torn Somalia in december should be flying a Home in a matter of Days and not weeks according to a v corps spokesman. Soldiers in the task Force were to finish loading their helicopters and equipment tuesday on the Careo ship american Eagle which will sail for Bremerhaven Germany said it. Col. Dick Bridges of v corps. The american Eagle is the sister ship to the american Falcon that took the equipment to Somalia in december. Last week task Force soldiers from Gie Belstadt Hanau and Wiesbaden Germany moved to a staging area in the somalian capital of Mogadishu to get ready to Fly Home according to Bridges. He said the exact number of soldiers returning see related stories on pages 2,11 and 17 would not be known until they get on the plane in Mogadishu. It should number somewhere around 300. As it stands now we Are planning for them to arrive at Chin main Bridges said referring to the . Air base near  the units slated to return two 1 11-60 Black Hawk platoons from co a. 7th in 227th aviation regt of the 4th brigade 1st grind div from Fliege Horst Cavern in Hanau one platoon from Coc 7th in 58lh aviation regt and he co 5th in 158th regt both from Gie Belstadt army , All the helicopters from Gie Belstadt and Hanau will return to Germany Bridges  also Call for 52 military and six civilian Mem Bers of Gie Belstadt s cob 7th in 159th aviation Hegt to remain in Somalia to support aviation units of the 10th Mountain div Light from fort drum see Somalia on Page 2