71.   In recent weeks this relationship has blossomed into the large-scale American deployment of Special Forces units and aircraft on what was once enemy soil.

72.   It also would provide incentives for quieter aircraft technology, although environmentalists say that no aircraft really are quiet.

73.   Its new aircraft are much quieter than the older planes used by many startup carriers.

74.   It was unclear whether the aircraft had been usable.

75.   Long regarded as luxury perks for top executives, corporate aircraft customarily are among the first expenses jettisoned in lean economic times.

76.   Mechanics worked to repair the damaged wiring, and the aircraft was back in service the next morning, Leyva said.

77.   NATO still rejects the notion that Allied aircraft could have been responsible for machine-gunning some of those slaughtered.

78.   Not only are aircraft to be based in Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf states and Central Asia, but Pakistan has also been assigned a prominent role.

79.   No NATO warplanes are envisioned for the mission, though the Pentagon suggested that combat aircraft would be available to support the reconnaissance planes if they came under threat.

80.   No U.S. aircraft were involved.