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Show July 23, 1992 by TSgt. David P. Masko Air Force News Service ZAGREB, Croatia (AFNS) Large pallets, overstuffed with food and medical supplies, line the airfield at Zagreb while United Nations troops handle the job of loading cargo onto with composed confidence. It's really a team effort, says Norwegian 1st Lt. Oivind Moldestand, operations officer at the Uncontrolled airport. Zagreb is one of the U.N.'s staging ports that holds humanitarian relief cargo for C-13- 0s the former Yugoslavian republics. "The airlift has been running just great, and that's due to the cooperation we have with all the different nationalities and all the flexibility they're showing us," Moldestand said July 13 on the flight line at Zagreb's airport. "We see as many as 20 different aircraft per day," he said. "Our job is to get them loaded and off to Sarajevo as quickly as possible." The Norwegian says he revels in the excitement of the operation, but at the same time is very conscious of the danger that both the U.N. troops and the aircrews face. C-1- 30 Thumbs-u- p when they "We like to give the crews a thumbs-uleave ... a signal for good luck on their way into Sarajevo." Moldestand didn't want to comment on how many have been fired on in Sarajevo, but said it has been difficult to control Serbian fire from dusk to daylight at the besieged airport. Under the U.N. peacekeeping banner, Air Force from the 37th Airlift Squadron, Rhein-MaiAB, Germany, have been landing at Zagreb since p C-13- 0s n C-13- 0s July 3, when the United States began its Provide Promise relief flights. According to Moldestand, the U.N. forces in the region only want one aircraft at a time to land at Sarajevo because the airfield is badly damaged from more than four months of being in the grip of war. 66 We have no idea when this is going to end; we just do what we're told to do and help out. We're here to do a job. Canadian Capt. Bernie Castonguay U.N. peacekeeping forces C-13- 0s C-13- 0s n. C-13- 0s IP h Z V COMPLETE DENTAL CARE Layton but she's a little homesick for Nigmekggan, her home in the Netherlands. The bus driver has been in country for three and a half months on a tour that " included the at already Sarajevo airport. duty Similarly, Canadian Capt. Bernie Castonguay said "everyone wants to go home." six-mon- th Getting the job done "We have no idea when this is going to end; we just do what we're told to do and help out," Castonguay said. "We're here to do a job." Castonguay, whose battalion is deployed at Sarajevo, is at Zagreb to coordinate Canadian missions and to assist the soldiers who are tasked with aircraft movement control at the airport. More than 800 Canadian "blue hat" troops are attached to the U.N. Military Observer Group at Sarajevo, which also includes 200 to 300 French, Egyptian and Ukrainian troops. This is really a multinational effort, said Norwegian 1st Lt. Frank Rishaug, an aircraft movement controller at Zagreb. Rishaug points to the hard work of all the nations involved as something "fantastic," and a signal to the world that good people won't just stand by and not help the starving and sick in C-1- 30 recurring headaches, according to a U.S. Public Health report. headaches are the most ... ROBERTS CHIROPRACTIC CENTER 924 24th St. Suite 2 Ogden, Utah 621-174- 0 Convenience Center I: 546-650- 0 Salads a, , Roy Clive C. Ingram, D.D.S., P.C. Family Dentist Harold D. Smith, D.D.S. Family Dentist Giant Sandwiches Party Trays Bosnia-Herzegovin- dangerous. The key to correcting a headache problem is to find the exact cause. There are many causes but one of the most common is the misalignment of the small neck bones, putting pressure on nerves and blood vessels that result in headache pain. 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Both tried to fly into forced back to Rhein-MaiSarajevo again, but were Zagreb's airport is usually quiet, except for the arrival of the or the sound of dogs scouting for food along the airport's perimeter. Moldestand said the wild dogs won't find much "extra" food around Zagreb, but they may find antipersonnel mines. "The Serbs have not fired on Zagreb since the Croat forces chased them out in March, but before that they mined the airport and its outlying areas," he said. Although no U.N. troops have been injured by mines at Zagreb, as they have at Sarajevo, a large section of mines still exists at Zagreb. "There's still some mines over at the camp where we live, but we're working almost everyday to clean it up," he said. The camp, called "Pleso," is a tent city located in a secluded forest near the airport. The United States and 15 other countries are working for the beleaguered people in Bosnia- - i 1ft v.uwnniJ3 Herzegovina under the guidance of the U.N. 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