21.   American officials believed that some sort of NATO military action was needed to respond to Serbian air attacks, three of which have been launched from the Udbina airfield.

22.   An air attack on those forces would have put Saddam on notice that he must pay a real price for his defiance.

23.   Among the incidents outlined was an air attack in October on an International Red Cross facility in Kabul.

24.   And U.S. special forces are with the rebels to help identify targets for the U.S. air attacks.

25.   And the suspension of the air attacks is not quite the same as peace.

26.   And with those soldiers vulnerable to Serbian retaliation against air attacks, the Europeans are more hesitant than Americans are to unleash air strikes on Serbian targets.

27.   Anti-Taliban Afghans, as well as U.S. and Pakistani officials, have been predicting that the Taliban leadership would unravel under the air attacks.

28.   As aid flows into northern Afghanistan and life starts to return to normal in the capital, Kabul, American air attacks, banditry and slow starvation persist here.

29.   At the Capitol, staff streamed from exits as police told them to run, amid fears of another air attack.

30.   At the Pentagon, Shalikashvili praised the U.N. decision to call in a NATO air attack for the first time since last November.