61. Besides Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, American forces now are trying to smoke out the Enron mastermind. 62. Bracing the country for years of peacekeeping operations involving thousands of U.S. troops, Clinton declined to set a date certain for bringing American forces home from Kosovo. 63. Brahimi seemed to indicate that foreign troops might be needed to supervise elections, but U.S. officials have said that most American forces would leave Haiti by Christmas. 64. A commander of American naval forces in the Arabian Sea said planes from the aircraft carriers there had supported the advancing Afghan forces. 65. A key responsibility of the American force will be to keep the factions separated and to ensure they stay in their respective zones. 66. A sophisticated foe might disarm, destroy or confuse unpiloted aircraft, rendering them useless or even turning them against American forces. 67. A tangible reflection of American plans has been the continuing construction of support facilities for American forces at Bagram. 68. A U.S. official in Islamabad, Pakistan, indicated that there are no immediate plans for even drawing down the American force. 69. A third imponderable is how American force should be used. 70. Add Haiti and Bosnia to the humanitarian mission in Rwanda, and American forces could soon be conspicuously active in three continents. |
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