1.   Official sources later confirmed that these aircraft had immediately joined the air offensive against Iraq.

2.   In the initial hours of the bombing, Defense Department officials and even some military officers hinted that the air offensive could be over within a week.

3.   Predictably, hard-line Arab regimes excoriated the joint U.S.-British air offensive against Afghanistan.

4.   The early signs are that the air offensive may indeed succeed in bringing the Serbs to the negotiating table.

5.   The sustained United States air offensive against North Vietnam launched exactly a year before by President Johnson had not succeeded, he told us -- and would not.

6.   Yeltsin repeatedly dispatched former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to Belgrade during the allied air offensive to seek an agreement with Milosevic.

7.   Pakistan, which has agreed to lend logistical support to the campaign, has pressed for the U.S.-led air offensive not to directly help opposition troops.

8.   A series of loud explosions rocked Baghdad Saturday as U.S. forces pressed with the punishing air offensive for the third straight night.

9.   A series of thunderous explosions rocked Baghdad before dawn Saturday as U.S. and British forces pressed with the punishing air offensive against Iraq for the third straight night.

10.   A series of thunderous explosions rocked Baghdad before dawn Saturday as U.S. and British forces pressed with punishing air offensive on Iraq for the third night.