21.   If Dole supports the troop deployment, it would highlight the single biggest difference between him and top rivals such as Texas GOP Sen. Phil Gramm.

22.   In his visit with Netanyahu on Sunday, Clinton hopes to persuade the Israeli leader to move forward with promised troop deployments from the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

23.   In the face of a huge Iraqi troop deployment, Clinton had no choice except to act swiftly and decisively.

24.   In Washington and London, officials have denied that there are any current troop operations inside Afghanistan, or any current troop deployments in Pakistan.

25.   Its capture was not a campaign of brilliant strategy, maneuvering armies, swift end runs or surprise troop deployment.

26.   Lawmakers are to consider as early as this week a non-binding resolution endorsing the troop deployment.

27.   Kuwaiti leaders were apparently piqued that they had not been fully consulted about the U.S. troop deployment.

28.   Meanwhile, U.N. officials on Saturday continued to seek support in speeding up troop deployments to Sierra Leone.

29.   NATO leaders have also promised to rein in troop deployments and nuclear weapons storage in former Soviet-bloc states.

30.   NATO sources say Clark favors more civilian authority to complement the next NATO troop deployment in Bosnia.