European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday August 10, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 3 . Starts Airlift to Sarajevo again Bevin Ccrawley staff writer Relief flights into the besieged City of Sarajevo resumed tuesday ending a nearly three week suspension that followed attacks on four humanitarian aircraft a . Spokesman said. However humanitarian ground convoys remain blocked at serbian Border Crossings and in serbian controlled areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina. If we cannot get Road convoys into Gorade Sre Renica and Zepa Muslim enclaves in Eastern Bosnia then Airdrop would be the Only other option said Ron Redmond a spokesman for the . High com missioner for refugees in Geneva. Also Road convoys have been blocked from entering the bosnian capital since the end of june Redmond said. A it supplies in Sarajevo Are fairy Low. That s Why it s essential that we get the Airlift up and running again Redmond said. Food stocks in the City Are so Low that donor coun tries Are willing to operate the Airlift Over the next two weekends Peter Kessler a spokesman for the Unher told the associated press in Sarajevo. Nor Mally Relief planes have not operated Over the week end. Three . Air Force aircraft were among the 14 cargo planes scheduled to land supplies tuesday in Sarajevo Redmond said. Fifteen Relief flights Are scheduled for today. Everything is going smoothly Redmond said late tuesday. We found that there has been an intr pro vement in the Security environment and Unher is watching this very  a spokeswoman for the american Airlift operation at Rhein main a Germany said late. Tuesday that she had no information about flights being resumed. The Airlift also includes British Canadian French and Ger Man aircraft. Four cargo planes including two . Aircraft were struck by ground fire july 20 and 21 near Sarajevo air port and one american civilian was injured. The United nations attempted to resume flights Fri Day Redmond said. But Only four aircraft landed at the Airport before tensions flared when bosnian serbs shot at a . Helicopter and captured a tank and other heavy weapons from a . Depot. In retaliation two american and two French aircraft fired on serbian positions late Friday. Relief flights were halted As a precaution while the situation unfolded Redmond said. Hoping to ease International sanctions the govern ment of neighbouring Serbia last week moved to sever ties with the bosnian serbs and limited convoys to one crossing Point on the serbian bosnian Border. This latest move is straining ground convoys in and through bosnian serbian regions Redmond said.  United nations attempted to bring Relief supplies by Convoy from Belgrade Yugoslavia to the bosnian enclave of Srebrenick. But Redmond said we were unable to Cross the Border from Serbia into Bosnia the refugee Agency is negotiating for the opening of More crossing Points for humanitarian cargo he said. Once the Border is crossed Redmond said it is unknown whether bosnian serbs would allow the convoys to Cross through their zones. Csc fund raising drive set to begin sept. 26 by Joseph Owen Heidelberg Bureau the annual combined Federal Campaign will last two weeks longer than usual this year in Europe mainly because of far Flung deployments in which euro Pean based . Troops Are participating. The eight week european phase of the Federal government s annual fund raising drive for Charity is scheduled to begin sept. 26, said Campaign spokeswoman Linda Lee. For the first time donors can arrange for their contributions to fund directly the family support and youth activity pro Grams in their local military communities Lee said. To do that a donor filling out the donation card simply must write syp in one of the four character boxes reserved for the codes of recipient nonprofit agencies. In the past such programs in an individual military Community received 6 per cent of the a designated funds that is Money not relegated to a specific Charity that the Community s residents donated to Csc. Most communities have been getting smaller and smaller shares of the Csc funds however because do nors tend increasingly to designate individual agencies As recipients. This year donors can elect to Forward their Money to any of 16 federations and More than 900 individual agencies listed on the Campaign brochure. The 1994 Campaign besides being longer than usual also will Start about two weeks later than the 1993 version. The Headquarters of the . European come in Stuttgart Germany sets the Campaign dates each year but it can do so Only after the . Office of personnel management sanctions the list of charities in the official Campaign brochure Lee said. Training of project officers for the european portion of the Campaign is Start ing this week she said. All Federal civilian and military person Nel Are eligible to take part in the combined Federal. Campaign. Donations Are collected during the Calendar year after the , usually by automatic payroll deduction. The Campaign conducted last fall reaped about $4.3 million in pledges. The total had declined nearly $1 million from the previous year a change that Campaign officials attributed to the withdraw Al of . Troops from Europe. The 1993 participation rate 29 per cent and the average pledge per donor $79.17 were Only marginally smaller than those of the 1992 . An con still be heard 4-Tseen around san Viro by Marian Hamilton Mediterranean Bureau san Vito Dei Norma uni Italy san Vito residents heard the last sounds of their radio station aug. 3 when the local american forces network affiliate went off the air to the music of Miichael w. Smith s place in this world however the staff of temporary left Ltd service members who remain at the air station Are not without american radio or television local broadcast officials sail. The tiny air station located near the seaport of Brindisi will officially close Friday. However a contingent of airmen will remain to support joint special operations task. Force ii which handles operations deny flight and provide Promise. Deny flight enforces a . Imposed no Fly zone Over Bosnia and Herzegovina while provide Promise includes Relief flights to former Yugoslavia and operation of a Field Hospital in Zagreb Croatia for . Peacekeepers. Those remaining at san Vito can receive radio transmissions directly from an in Frankfurt Germany until the last of september. After september when contracts with local radio towers expire listeners can find the station on Cable to channels said an an spokes Man master sgt. Ron Rahorn of an Sanvito. Of for an viewers Rahorn said a satellite dish was installed aug. 3 that can pick up television signals directly from Frankfurt. Before the signals were relayed from Germany to Vicenza Italy and then to san Vito. Technical problems with the former system meant frequent Breaks in to service a problem that will not occur with the new satellite dish he said. Although there will be no local serv ice Rahorn said san Vito will not lose Quality an  double plays a div Moon Coo army 1st sgt. Steve Combs of he co 98th area support group pitches in recently to give Juana Glomb some help at Bat in Wurzburg Germany. Glomb is the chaperone for 11 students from Greif Swald Germany who Are visiting 98th ask communities this month. In july 12 american students visited Greif Swald a former East German Community near the Baltic sea to see what life is like there. The program the first of its kind sponsored by the 98th ask helps the students learn about each other s Cul Ture and language