1.   It was reported that the agreement covered missile systems, light armoured vehicles and sea surveillance aircraft.

2.   American surveillance aircraft have also observed movement of convoys in the region and ground troops have discovered artillery equipment, tanks and large amounts of ammunition at Zhawar Kili.

3.   American government officials met late Friday with the detained crew members of a downed U.S. surveillance aircraft and are expected to meet with them again on Saturday.

4.   At the insistence of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the Pentagon has also been looking at other ways to acquire surveillance aircraft quickly.

5.   But rapid advances in computer and communications technology, combined with the success of the Predator surveillance aircraft in Afghanistan, have turned battlefield commanders into true believers.

6.   But the runway there is neither long enough nor can it take the weight of sophisticated electronic surveillance aircraft.

7.   But they spent Monday and much of Tuesday idling away their time at a resort hotel near the airfield at which the surveillance aircraft had landed.

8.   Campbell has ordered state troopers, surveillance aircraft and emergency preparedness officials to meet the train carrying the waste at the North Carolina state line.

9.   China continued to hold the grounded surveillance aircraft and its fate was unresolved by the agreement between the two countries, which was announced Wednesday.