The World - News from Oct. 13, 1986

Two planeloads of food for the starving people of southern Sudan were moved without incident although rebel forces in the war-torn region had threatened to shoot down any passing aircraft, the Sudanese news agency said. It said a chartered DC-8 flew from Khartoum south to the government-held city of Juba, and a C-130 transport flew into neighboring Zaire with 16 tons of food to be relayed to the famine area. The source of the relief supplies, believed to be Operation Rainbow, a U.N.-coordinated, Western-sponsored airlift, was not identified. An earlier scheduled flight was canceled after the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army made the threat.