NATO Commander General Wesley Clark is requesting additional planes. but NATO is running out of basing areas in the Balkans. A lack of preparatory work to have these facilities ready has delayed 400 planes being deployed to the region. NATO has an oil embargo on Yugoslavia but will not use force to stop shipments into the country. The refugee crisis has been compounded by poor planning for the relief effort. Before the air campaign began on March 24. the Administration had enough food in the region to feed 500.000 people for five months. Almost twothirds of that amount was stationed in Yugoslavia. however.