21.  The Pentagon deployed additional planes to support a military buildup in the Gulf.

22.  The State Department also expects to deliver four additional crop-dusting planes next month and eight more by February.

23.  Two additional planes were borrowed from France to assist in containing the fires.

24.  U.S. officials confirmed that additional planes had been sent but claimed that the move was not in response to the Iraqi action to bar U.S. participation in arms inspections.

25.  He added that additional military planes had been dispatched to the area as a precautionary measure but he did not elaborate.