31.  NATO aircraft on Thursday conducted search and rescue operations for two missing French pilots, shot down near Pale on Wednesday.

32.  Now French pilots are threatening to go on strike during the World Cup.

33.  Richard was planning a visit Wednesday to French pilots involved in the strikes.

34.  Security agents have arrested a French pilot on espionage charges and impounded his small airplane that landed without warning in the city of Calabar, it was reported Wednesday.

35.  The body of French pilot Patrick Dutrey was removed Saturday from the Malaysian forest where his light plane crashed earlier this week, the national news agency Bernama reported.

36.  The search was also on for two French pilots whose plane was shot down near Pale.

37.  The unexpected maneuver confused and bewildered the French pilots, the newspaper reported.

38.  The Swiss-run organization has previously complained that it is barred from visiting two French pilots shot down by Bosnian Serbs during NATO bombing raids.

39.  Their release of two downed French pilots on Tuesday was the latest attempt to win some sort of special accommodation.

40.  Two French pilots headed for a momentous homecoming after Serb captors freed them Tuesday, easing tensions two days before the Bosnian peace treaty signing.