31.   Planning meetings will take place in a variety of places in the coming weeks.

32.   A U.S. Naval official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the three countries will have a final planning meeting sometime in October for the exercises.

33.   As executive deputy governor overseeing the economy, he would normally have chaired the planning meeting.

34.   Elsewhere, the U.N. Security Council and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe were planning meetings on Kosovo.

35.   European soccer body UEFA, which has the authority to move the championship out of England, will discuss the incident next month in a pre-scheduled planning meeting.

36.   George W. Bush is signaling his apparent selections for top jobs in a Bush administration by a series of high-profile planning meetings.

37.   Its first planning meeting is scheduled for January.

38.   Kabila backed out of a planning meeting with Mobutu that had been scheduled for Wednesday, citing security concerns.

39.   On Friday, military representatives of countries that have offered peacekeeping troops held a planning meeting to hammer out the details of the force.

40.   She was to attend a planning meeting.