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Text of speech given April 24, 2001.

With EP-3E crew safe in U.S., Rumsfeld blasts Chinese pilots' aggressive flying.

U.S., China agree on EP-3E return, but process will take several weeks.

Cargo plane, technicians leave Kadena to retrieve EP-3E from Chinese island.

Crisis over downing of U.S. plane is heaven-sent for China's right wing.

Reconnaissance plane veterans confident that EP-3's crew acted properly.

Guam treated newly-released crew to an 'all-American meal'.

Medical checks, questioning about crash on crew's agenda in Hawaii.

Kadena squadron has followed detention, release of one of their own.

Beijing allows technicians to board EP-3, assess damage, removal of equipment.

U.S. contractors arrive in China to begin assessing damage to EP-3E.

Pentagon says deal 'close' on return of EP-3 from China.

U.S., China strike deal to send EP-3E reconnaissance plane home in pieces.

China defends practice of intercepting U.S. reconnaissance flights.

U.S., China continue to hammer out details for return of surveillance plane.

Discussions with China on retrieval of EP-3E continue, U.S. officials say.

On the Internet, EP-3 veterans share concerns about China incident.

Annotated photo page.

The U.S. military resumed surveillance flights near China, sending an Air Force RC-135 aircraft from Okinawa along the northeast coastline.

With crew back in U.S., focus shifts to fate of damaged surveillance plane.