101.   President Saddam Hussein met Wednesday with his air defense forces who pledged to shoot down any allied aircraft flying over Iraq, the official INA news agency said.

102.   The Allies parachuted hundreds of rubber dummies towards the German lines to the east, and Allied aircraft circled the Boulogne region to create a diversion.

103.   The French plane was the third allied aircraft to be shot down over Bosnia in three years of conflict in the former Yugoslav republic.

104.   The number of allied aircraft to take part in the mission and the rate of flights were not immediately clear.