1.   An Associated Press reporter allowed aboard the Peleliu, an amphibious assault ship, reported on Saturday that Marine jump-jets had staged their first airstrikes against Afghanistan.

2.   A cousin in New York had heard that the town barracks was hit in the first NATO airstrikes.

3.   After the first Russian airstrikes in late September, the mayor, Leche Masayev, and town elders made the decision not to let Chechen fighters into town.

4.   Soon after the first airstrikes on Afghanistan, Americans began to see evidence of the additional precautions.

5.   Anticipating trouble, her boss bought large stocks before the first airstrikes.

6.   The first airstrikes came a day after Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi agreed to a U.S. and Rwandan proposal to end the border conflict peacefully.

7.   Gorazde was the target of a Bosnian Serb offensive last April which prompted the first NATO airstrikes in Bosnia against advancing Serb tanks.

8.   The focus of a furious assualt by the Serbs in April last year, this prompted the first NATO airstrikes against Bosnian Serb forces.