31.   Last week, President Clinton ordered retaliatory missile strikes against targets in Afghanistan and the Sudan associated with Osama bin Laden.

32.   Missile strikes will not stop him.

33.   Monday, Israel stepped up its West Bank offensive and killed six Palestinians with a missile strike in the Gaza Strip.

34.   No NATO losses were reported in the first day of the air campaign, a combination of missile strikes and attacks by manned aircraft.

35.   Of course, their week before Christmas was ruined by the missile strikes.

36.   On Thursday night, an Israeli missile strike in the southern Gaza Strip killed a Hamas official and wounded two others, Reuters reported.

37.   On Wednesday, senior officers defended that reputation despite the need to return for a second missile strike to finish the mission on Tuesday.

38.   One of the most provocative possibilities, which authorities said they had not ruled out, was a missile strike.

39.   Overnight on Thursday, the Israeli Army killed a senior member of the militant Islamic group Hamas with a missile strike from a helicopter.

40.   Palestinian sources said two Palestinian fighters were killed in separate missile strikes by Israeli helicopters.