The talks were suspended for more than a year after the accidental American bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

The Pentagon said today that the accidental bombing of the embassy would not affect the basic direction of its air campaign.

It was during the Winter War the previously mentioned "accidental" bombings occurred.

The Clinton Administration needs to give China and the American people a fuller explanation of the events that produced the apparently accidental bombing.

A senior Defense Department official said the accidental bombing would not force the Pentagon to change its tactics or targets.

It said several steps had been taken to address "organizational problems that contributed to the accidental bombing," but then declined to discuss them, saying they were secret.

Danger from U.S. bombers came not only from accidental bombings, but from the aircraft themselves.

The accidental bombing has touched off a furious round of fingerpointing among various Pentagon and intelligence officials.

I'm sure it was an accidental bombing.

Mr. Lerner did not set out to game Google; his exploit turned out to be a kind of accidental bombing.