61.   Each of the armed services is also preparing new training programs to educate troops on the five-year-old policy.

62.   Efforts last year to establish a multinational counterintelligence center failed in the wake of Panamanian opposition to keeping U.S. troops on their soil.

63.   Ecuador has complained to the guarantors of the peace accord about an increase in the number of Peruvian troops on the border.

64.   Even without American troops on the ground, Washington has more diplomatic influence than any other outside power.

65.   European defense officials are pushing the United States to keep troops on the ground beyond December, to ensure a lasting peace.

66.   Even with no U.S. troops on the ground, Washington had a right and a duty to speak out.

67.   France and Britain, with troops on the ground, have resisted giving the U.N. peacekeepers more muscle, and more military support from NATO.

68.   Fox is even cutting for comments from front line troops on duty around the world.

69.   Further, U.S. arms sales often come back to haunt U.S. troops on the battlefield.

70.   Germ warfare agents delivered by artillery shells, missile warheads or aerosol canisters would be far more devastating to troops on the battlefield than conventional munitions or chemical weapons.