61.   Or bomb and talk and hope to build a messy diplomatic solution from the ashes of Kosovo.

62.   Our goal is a diplomatic solution.

63.   Privately, though, officials said they still have hopes for a diplomatic solution to a bitter standoff with the Iraqi dictator.

64.   Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan and Senator Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, argued for a quick diplomatic solution to cut US losses.

65.   Saddam made good on threats to expel American members of the U.N. arms inspection teams after a two-week standoff produced no diplomatic solution.

66.   Russia is pressing for a diplomatic solution to the current flareup, dispatching envoys and floating proposals to Iraq to make the inspections more palatable.

67.   Senator Dan Coats, an Indiana Republican, said this diplomatic solution may only delay the inevitable.

68.   Some administration officials say the chances for a diplomatic solution have been increasing, however slightly, as the prospect of military action comes closer.

69.   Simply advocating it, he believes, will energize the search for a diplomatic solution by forcing his critics to propose ideas of their own.

70.   Some, like the soldiers who have hung up their guns and the mayor said they would fight to get Brcko back if the diplomatic solution goes against them.