11.   Israeli officials said their forces would leave as soon as the Palestinians complied with treaty obligations to crack down on militants.

12.   Mother Teresa told us that the demographics of the dispossessed kept growing because the forces of globalization left more victims in their wake than beneficiaries.

13.   NATO will not control the entire province until the last Yugoslav forces leave, which is required to happen by next Sunday.

14.   None of the powers involved wants the U.N. forces to leave, but they are sliding step by step to a point that will make it inevitable.

15.   Now the departing forces leave behind a nation that is still trying to create a democratic, functioning state.

16.   North of Ramallah, Israeli forces left the city of Nablus following a weeklong incursion in which scores of alleged terrorists were arrested and two bomb factories were destroyed.

17.   On Tuesday, lawmakers and the administration officials also sparred over the White House plan to beef up Bosnian government forces before the NATO force leaves the region.

18.   Once Serb forces leave Kosovo, NATO is counting on the KLA rebels to disband, put down their weapons, and turn into a civilian police force.

19.   President Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, who earlier this year demanded that U.N. force leave his country, wants to show that their presence has formally ended.

20.   Serbian security forces must leave Kosovo.