41.   The arrival of the surveillance planes last October was the first time NATO forces had crossed the Atlantic to defend the United States.

42.   The American surveillance plane was part of program to interdict drug-running aircraft flying in the area.

43.   The British recently began operating two surveillance planes out of Mombasa.

44.   The drug interdiction operation involved an American surveillance plane, operated by the CIA with a contract crew, and a Peruvian Air Force fighter.

45.   The idea that a slow-moving, propeller-driven surveillance plane, flying on auto-pilot, rammed into a Chinese fighter jet is ludicrous.

46.   The JSTARS is a surveillance plane that could help the Army and Air Force detect troop movements and radio Iraqi positions to commanders on the ground, Cook said.

47.   The president also will await a recommendation by Rumsfeld before deciding whether to have U.S. fighters escort the unarmed surveillance planes.

48.   The Peruvian fighter and the U.S. surveillance plane were part of a joint drug-interdiction operation to stop drug-running flights in the region.

49.   The small surveillance planes have played a key role in military action in Afghanistan.

50.   The two men never discussed the collision last spring of an American surveillance plane and a Chinese fighter.