41.   Baker said they preferred reconnaissance patrols over pulling guard duty at their camp.

42.   But the U.S. Defense Department said the radar had been used to coordinate Iraqi air defense targeting of U.S. and British aircraft on patrol over southern Iraq.

43.   China put more soldiers on patrol over the summer in Lhasa, where opposition is strongest and where news of the Dalai Lama arrives more frequently, Barnett said.

44.   Donald H. Rumsfeld is starting his first extended trip abroad as defense secretary with a firsthand look at the U.S.-British air patrols over northern Iraq.

45.   Environmentalists have urged the government to begin air patrols over the region to deter poachers, who gun down the elephants and then sell their ivory tusks.

46.   For a short time the Pentagon had to suspend air patrols over northern Iraq because some of the planes there were needed in the Balkans.

47.   He has publicly criticized the Iraqi leadership, granted asylum to senior Iraqi defectors and allowed U.S. combat jets in Jordan to fly patrols over southern Iraq.

48.   Instead, they said Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld wants the troops to support air patrols over New York and Washington and remain alert elsewhere in the country.

49.   Instead, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wants the troops to support air patrols over New York and Washington and remain alert elsewhere in the country.

50.   Iraqi air defenses are forcing the United States to re-evaluate its air patrols over north and south Iraq, Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz said Thursday.