71.   Pentagon officials say that in recent months, some Chinese pilots started to fly too close to the American planes.

72.   Pentagon officials have said that in recent months, some Chinese pilots started to fly too close to the American planes.

73.   Responding to an allegation from Burton, Bacon said American planes were poised on the runway, engines running, as the MiGs approached the Cessnas.

74.   Radar tracks could clarify whether the American plane came anywhere near Chinese air space.

75.   Several small canisters, possibly from a cluster bomb, lie on the ground not far from the building, another sign that American planes had bombed the building.

76.   Shoot down in international waters American planes armed only with leaflets?

77.   Several survivors said later that their vehicles were diverted onto a mountainous back road by armed fighters loyal to Zadran and were then struck by the American planes.

78.   Still, Pentagon officials said, no Taliban aircraft has been seen taking to the skies to oppose American pilots and no American planes have been lost.

79.   Stufflebeem said rockets were still being fired from hand-held launchers in Kandahar at American planes.

80.   That country also agreed to allow American planes to fly over its territory and to order suspicious aircraft in Trinidadian air space to land there.