21.   But he added that Kuwait had felt strongly about getting some kind of clause on early warning of Iraqi troop movements into the draft.

22.   But he said a sizable group of Kurds demonstrated outside a U.N. building in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya, near which Iraqi troops have reportedly amassed.

23.   But Hoffman, a financial analyst from Columbus, has had a front-row seat to the recent Iraqi troop movements toward the Kuwaiti border.

24.   But he said a sizable group of Kurds had demonstrated outside a U.N. building in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya, near which Iraqi troops have reportedly massed.

25.   But Jalal Talabani, the PUK leader, told The Associated Press on Friday that Iraqi troops remained a threat to the Kurds.

26.   But many Iraqi troops were still near the border and some units were still moving south.

27.   But Saturday the defense secretary said intelligence reports indicated that the Iraqi troops near Nasiriya seemed simply to be awaiting transportation.

28.   Clinton and Defense Secretary William Perry said Iraqi troops appeared to be dispersing.

29.   Clinton said Iraqi troops, which had joined one Kurdish faction in battling another last weekend at Irbil, appeared to be withdrawing and dispersing.

30.   Crude oil prices rose amid concern that threatening Iraqi troop movements this week make the lifting of an embargo on its oil exports unlikely.