Bosnia Notes

U.S. soldier killed

An American soldier was killed and another injured Friday in a vehicle accident in Bosnia, U.S. officials said.

Few details were immediately available.

The soldiers’ names were withheld pending notification of relatives.

It marked the second death of a U.S. soldier since the Bosnia peace enforcement mission began last December. The first was Army Sgt. Donald A. Dugan, who was killed by a land mine on Feb. 3.

Getting ready to pack

The NATO-led peace enforcement mission in Bosnia has entered just its fourth month, but U.S. military planners find themselves engrossed by thoughts of leaving - driven by President Clinton’s public pledge to extract the force by December, and by the mountain of materiel.

Planners assume they must pull out not only soldiers, weapons and thousands of vehicles, but also much of the 1.5 million feet of barbed and concertina wire, 100,000 sheets of plywood and 4 million linear feet of lumber used to build camps.