European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The vol. Is no. 311 35c wednesday february 24.1993 d 8693 a . Readies Bosnia Airdrop for this week official say Balkan powder a in. Sent member signals to . Plane loaded 1th Relief supplies in Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina. Washington a the . Military is ready 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. But 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 week. There Are Many serious drawbacks to such Airdrop the official noted but Given the desperate Situa. Tion in the War ravaged Region of the for Mer Yugoslavia it s better than doing  an 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 Boutros 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 Pago 2 serbs scoff at . War crimes tribunal Belgrade Yue Lam a moves by the i rated nations to set up a War cronies court have triggered nothing but sheers from serbs accused of massive atrocities n the Balkan Chil a it. They will never Jet me m you ave a i one Al thex a l de by the . S Aie de Franr  a a Pontia War criminal has been  is a . The in Secu Council void Mon Day to it up a War air i tribunal to prosecute those who have horrified the world with their ethnic cleansing mass killings and rapes in former Yugoslavia. Although there was no immediate re action from serbs listed As possible War criminals they have made their disdain Clear in the past. Serbs croats and muslims Hae been accused of crimes in the War that began As Yugoslavia fell apart in mid-1991. . Investigators blame the serbs for the worst atrocities ranging from the creation of nazi like concentration Camps to forced deportation of muslims and systematic rape of Muslim women the Resolution on War crimes could Lead to proceedings similar to the 1945 49 Nurnberg trials of nazi leaders and the Tokyo War crimes trials. Those trials led to new definitions of War crimes and crimes against humanity that were added to the Geneva conventions in 1949, out despite the political significance of the 15-member Security Council s unanimous vote there were doubts about whether monday s action would deter further atrocities in former Yugoslavia and help the peace process in Zagreb Ljubo Antic head of the croatian parliament s committee for human and minority rights said Croatia see serbs on Page 2 300 to leave Somalia in a matter of Days b Craig Martin 0  a Fate 5 of v corps  tin maj 15s that deployed to a he old be  he me in   to a v v a. Vij Ier to intr. I a  by Dii of v   so the   Teer i a la t week talk 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 a i t number of soldiers returning see related stories on pages 2 and 11  net be . Until they get on the plane in m -