Heavy shelling thundered near Sarajevo's Serb-held airport Friday, hampering U.N. efforts to reopen the airfield to relief flights for the capital's hungry residents.

In Sarajevo, a city of 300,000, people have been reduced to eating grass, nettles and weeds to stay alive.They are under siege by Yugoslav-backed Serb forces fighting Muslims and Croats, who voted nearly four months ago to secede from Yugoslavia.

Meanwhile, in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, 55 U.S. diplomats and their dependents left in a convoy for Hungary.

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Embassy staff has been cut from 90 to 35 to protest Serbia's involvement in the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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