21.   NASA officials said the agency would make all key decisions about launching flight operations of the space shuttles.

22.   Overall, Franks said, the military commanders who launched the operation in Afghanistan did all they could to prepare the soldiers.

23.   Separately, Infonie, which has almost exclusively French language services, said it is launching operations in Belgium and Quebec.

24.   Russia has long lobbied to deploy its own troops in the region as a base to launch operations against Chechen rebels who are reportedly hiding in the valley.

25.   Teheran launched the operations in response to tensions with neighboring Iraq.

26.   The first nonmilitary, non-NASA launching operation will allow small companies, universities and even the Air Force to book passage for their payloads with a private outfit.

27.   The operation was launched in response to a wave of Palestinian suicide bombings that killed several dozen Israelis.

28.   The operation was launched in February and calls for stepped-up searches for drugs stashed in cars, trucks and trains crossing the border.

29.   The situation that will develop if ground combat operations are launched does not look too good for Iraq either.

30.   They launched some operations in March that killed a number of people and wiped out tourism in Turkey.