31.   No law permits a military plane to shoot down an unarmed civilian aircraft, the officials said.

32.   Orders for industrial machinery and primary metals also rose, while those for civilian aircraft and electronic equipment declined.

33.   Orders for civilian aircraft and electronic equipment declined.

34.   Osipovich said he had no doubt that the plane he downed over Sakhalin Island was a civilian aircraft.

35.   Production of the civilian aircraft should provide jobs at Bell well into the next century.

36.   President Clinton signed the Helms-Burton bill into law earlier this year after Cuban fighters shot down two civilian aircraft piloted by exiles in late February.

37.   Responding to the downing of two civilian aircraft by Cuba, the four Republicans said President Clinton should have taken a harder line against the island nation long ago.

38.   Saab also announced plans to close a civilian regional aircraft unit at the end of this year.

39.   The Air Force said on Monday that it had expanded its effort to re-educate its pilots about encountering civilian aircraft after two similar incidents last week.

40.   The company has sought to expand its defense business and shed other assets, such as property, civilian aircraft and Rover cars.