11.   Israeli forces were preparing to shed restrictions that now limit their attacks on Palestinian areas.

12.   Serbian attacks have escalated, humiliated U.N. forces are preparing to withdraw, and safe havens are being overrun.

13.   Security forces were quietly preparing for any incident of civil unrest.

14.   The initial force will also prepare ports, airports and railroads for the arrival of the rest of the peacekeeping force.

15.   The NATO forces are preparing to enter Kosovo, where ethnic Albanians and Serbs has been battling for a year.

16.   Wednesday, there was fear that Tutsi forces may be preparing a military coup.

17.   Yale, however, has a different semester schedule and its forces had been preparing since the day after the Eastern Sprints three weeks ago.

18.   A NATO source said the proposal did not mean NATO ground forces were preparing to invade Kosovo.

19.   A rebel group which calls itself the Albanian National Army has warned that its forces are preparing to launch another insurgency because of the slow pace of reform.