41.   Those included the potential for many casualties among Americans and innocent Afghans.

42.   U.S. officials agreed, and said they had little evidence of any significant casualties among senior Taliban leaders.

43.   Western officials said casualties among soldiers appeared to be high, particularly north of Sarajevo, but no information was available from either army.

44.   While the Australian vehicles were struck by bullets, there were no casualties among the Australian soldiers.

45.   With their umpiring ranks now overflowing, the leagues last week announced the casualties among the veterans.

46.   With that ugly campaign now bogged down amid heightened Chechen resistance, there is a serious risk of rising casualties among Russians as well as Chechens.

47.   Police said they did not expect to find any more casualties among the ruins of the red-roofed homes.

48.   Police said they held Rantisi responsible for the violence, but that they left the scene because they wanted to avoid casualties among civilians.

49.   Prime Minister Ehud Barak has pledged to pull the army out of Lebanon by July, responding to growing public weariness with casualties among Israeli soldiers.

50.   Advocates say the bombings avoided the need for a U.S. invasion that would have caused tens of thousands of casualties among American soldiers.