11.   Meanwhile, NATO leaders extend unprecedented security guarantees to seven neighbors of Yugoslavia, including nations that would serve as staging areas for a possible ground invasion.

12.   NATO Secretary General Javier Solana has repeatedly emphasized that NATO has no plans to authorize a ground invasion of Kosovo.

13.   Ousting the Taliban would be likely to require a ground invasion leading to the capture and occupation of Kabul, the capital, and other main cities.

14.   Ousting the Taliban would probably require a ground invasion leading to the capture and occupation of Kabul, the capital, and other main cities.

15.   Russian newspapers have reported this week that preparations are under way for a ground invasion.

16.   Such a vote would put the Senate on record as either opposing or supporting a ground invasion of Yugoslav territory.

17.   The case for a Korean exception is based on longstanding American plans to use land mines to slow a North Korean ground invasion of the South.

18.   The government is also deeply opposed to a NATO ground invasion, which would become a more likely option if the current diplomacy fails.

19.   The failure of these efforts would inevitably lead to greater pressure for a ground invasion of Kosovo by NATO forces, a step that Clinton opposes.

20.   The statistics illustrate the distance NATO is from launching a successful ground invasion of Kosovo, even if it could muster the political will to assemble one.