21.   China accused the U.N. Security Council on Monday of setting a dangerous precedent by failing to act while the United States and Britain launched airstrikes against Iraq.

22.   Coalition forces launch weekend airstrikes in Afghanistan.

23.   Citing local reports, Fernandes said Senegal has been readying the small Bissagos airfield to receive warplanes, possibly to launch airstrikes against rebel positions.

24.   Days later, chief U.N. inspector Richard Butler declared that Iraq was not cooperating with weapons inspectors and the United States and Britain launched airstrikes against Iraq in punishment.

25.   Diplomats and soldiers at NATO headquarters awaited the outcome of last-ditch talks Tuesday, with everything ready for launching airstrikes if mediation failed.

26.   Earlier, Avdeyev told Russian reporters that it was unlikely NATO would launch airstrikes as long as the international verifiers remained in Kosovo.

27.   Even before the airstrikes were launched, Clinton and senior defense officials had raised the possibility that planes could be shot down and pilots could be lost.

28.   Even before the airstrikes were launched, President Bill Clinton and senior defense officials had raised the possibility that planes could be shot down and pilots could be lost.

29.   Every night when the USS Theodore Roosevelt launches airstrikes on the Taliban, the first planes out and the last ones back are the tankers.

30.   For two days, India has launched relentless airstrikes aimed at forcing alleged Pakistani-backed guerrillas from the mountains.