1.   Faced with the prospect of making a quick return to Earth and an aborted mission, the three astronauts managed to reconfigure their docking system and linkup.

2.   Hays was the navigator of the aircraft, which wandered well off-course after an aborted bombing mission.

3.   He was part of an aborted mission appointed this spring to investigate reports of massacres in Congo, the former Zaire.

4.   Place this show in the category of aborted missions.

5.   A NATO spokesman in Naples, Italy, Capt. James Mitchell, would not comment on the aborted mission.

6.   Mercenary leader has no regrets over aborted mission or his own detention.

7.   Seven Columbia astronauts on Wednesday pick up where their aborted mission left off three months ago.

8.   The government is seeking a new valuation of military hardware bought for the aborted mercenary mission on Bougainville island which has been sitting idle in Australia since March.

9.   Though incomplete because of the aborted mission, the U.N. report gave evidence of Rwandan involvement in the massacres of hundreds of unarmed civilians by troops loyal to Kabila.