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To: Rande Is who wrote (4906)	4/3/1999 4:10:00 PM
From: Rande Is	of 57584

U.S. SENDS AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO JOIN WAR ON SERBS Saturday, April 3 2:38 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is sending the Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier to the Adriatic to take part in strikes against Serb forces, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said Saturday. ''(Defense Secretary William Cohen) has approved the redirection of the USS Theodore Roosevelt battle group to the European theater for participation in Operation Allied Force,'' Bacon told a briefing. ''(It) is supposed to arrive in the Adriatic on April 5.'' He said the aircraft carrier, which carries 50 strike aircraft and is armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles, had been diverted from a mission to the Gulf. Bacon said 13 stealth F117 aircraft took off Saturday and would arrive at a German base Sunday, doubling the total number taking part in the operation to 24. Navy Capt. Steve Pietropaoli told the briefing the F117s had been very effective and the Theodore Roosevelt battle group would ''significantly enhance'' the weaponry at NATO's disposal. One of the original 12 radar-evading planes involved crashed a week ago during the early days of the NATO campaign to force Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to halt his program of driving ethnic Albanians from Kosovo. The Defense Department also said NATO does not plan to use ground forces to invade Yugoslavia's province of Kosovo. ''There is not an intentional plan to put a ground force into a combat environment, to invade Kosovo,'' Bacon said.

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