41.  NATO officials reported this week that a missile had been fired at a Dutch plane on Wednesday and a French plane on Thursday.

42.  On Sunday, a French plane landed in Sarajevo to pick up three French peacekeepers killed in a munitions accident.

43.  Officials are considering putting plainclothes and uniformed police on French planes, a source said.

44.  One French plane is downed and five members of an EU observation team are killed.

45.  Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov said Tuesday that U.S. and French military planes would be allowed to use a Tajik airport in the anti-terrorist campaign in neighboring Afghanistan.

46.  The Albanian group, led by delegation leader Hashim Thaci, arrived aboard a French military plane.

47.  Thaci, and the rest of the delegation at Rambouillet, were expected to return to Pristina on Thursday in a French plane.

48.  Thaci and the rest of the delegation at Rambouillet were expected to return to Pristina Thursday in a French plane.

49.  The French Defense Ministry said late Thursday that all French planes participating in the bombing returned successfully to Italian air bases.

50.  The French Defense Ministry today again denied that French planes had bombed Pale.