61.  U.S. officials say French planes attacked the Bosnian Serb stronghold of Pale to retaliate for the killing of two French peacekeepers, The New York Times reported Tuesday.

62.  U.S. Air Force monitors in the European command also picked up the distress signal Sunday night at about the same time as the French plane, said Potgieter.

63.  He was then accompanied to the French plane, which failed to take off according to schedule.

64.  He was then put aboard a French military plane and flown to France, the paper said.

65.  He was then accompanied to the French plane, which later took off behind schedule.

66.  In addition, family members of the deceased president and of top military officers were flown out of Kigali on board French planes, he said.

67.  A French plane was shot at Sunday while landing at Sarajevo airport, IFOR officers said.

68.  A French plane was hit by small arms fire as it came in to land at Sarajevo airport, prompting IFOR to threaten tough retaliation against any future attacks.

69.  A French plane with food was expected to land at the military airport at Tafaraoui, near Oran in western Algeria later Saturday.

70.  Earlier Rummelhardt had said no French plane had overflown Iraq in the past few days.