31.  China said Tuesday that a massive search by sea and air had turned up no sign of the missing pilot but that efforts to find him were continuing.

32.  Chinese TV, swamping viewers for days with details of the search for their missing pilot in the South China Sea, had begun shifting course.

33.  In Paris, preparations for signing were under way despite a dispute between France and Bosnian Serbs over two missing French pilots shot down in August in Serb territory.

34.  It said rescuers were searching for the missing Chinese pilot.

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

36.  Rescue teams spotted the plane and continued to search the swampy area for the missing pilots, he said.

37.  President Bush expressed his regrets about the missing Chinese pilot in a speech Thursday to newspaper editors, but his aides made clear no apology was forthcoming.

38.  Public anger may have been increased by the failure of state media to report on a U.S. offer to help look for the missing Chinese pilot.

39.  Russian rescue services sent two helicopters, six ships and a plane to find the missing pilot and passengers in the Sea of Okhotsk off Sakhalin Island.

40.  Serb sources in the stronghold of Pale, meanwhile, said Friday that France appeared to have launched a rescue mission for its two missing pilots.