51.   The chiefs have refused to endorse a Republican plan to build a system to defend the country against long-range missile strikes as soon as the technology is ready.

52.   The commander who led that attack, Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, reported that the missile strikes had destroyed the vast majority of the targets.

53.   The comments came as military forensic experts studied the remains of victims of a second controversial missile strike in a Zhawar Khili cave complex in southeastern Afghanistan.

54.   The demonstrations were a result of the missile strike in Belgrade, which killed three Chinese journalists.

55.   The Clinton administration is weighing committing the United States to building new radar bases in Alaska to detect missile strikes from China or North Korea.

56.   The Israeli army killed a Palestinian militia leader and wounded another Thursday in a helicopter missile strike on their van in the West Bank town of Beit Sahour.

57.   The idea is to fire a retaliatory salvo before the incoming missiles strike.

58.   The president himself on Tuesday said the missile strikes would protect U.S. aircraft that will be enforcing the no-flight zone.

59.   The Sudan has called for an international investigation of the missile strike, which killed one person and wounded seven others, according to the government in Khartoum.

60.   The system might be useful in sounding the alarm when the population is facing imminent missile strikes, tsunamis, or radiation leaks.