1. During the next ten months Jack would fly on fighter patrols, reconnaissance flights, anti-U-Boat patrols, harassing sorties over Macedonia and long distance bombing raids. 2. American warships were patrolling the coastlines of the two countries, including the northern gulf, and warplanes made reconnaissance flights. 3. And company aircraft have periodically made reconnaissance flights over the production sites. 4. Aziz indicated that Iraq would never accept the need for U.N.-sponsored reconnaissance flights. 5. A Moscow communique says that Soviet airmen returning from reconnaissance flights over Berlin report that the entire eastern h alf of the city appears deserted and desolated. 6. Bush administration officials continued to rebuff Chinese demands that reconnaissance flights off the coast of China cease. 7. But even critics of other Pentagon practices say that the reconnaissance flights still provide critical intelligence that cannot be collected in any other way. 8. But officials at the Pentagon said NATO had not detected any provocative deployments that could jeopardize the reconnaissance flights. 9. China wants the United States to stop reconnaissance flights near its borders, which they consider threatening to national security even when conducted in international air space. 10. China has announced it wants the United States to stop such reconnaissance flights. |
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