71.   Intense negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians to secure an Israeli military deployment from Hebron were going on here early Wednesday, with US mediator Dennis Ross in attendance.

72.   Iraqi troops have pulled back but the United States has said it will continue a massive military deployment in the region.

73.   Abbas and Erekat are the Palestinian point men in the talks on Israeli military deployment from the West Bank town of Hebron.

74.   Beknazarov said his criticism of the US military deployment in Kyrgyzstan was one of the reasons the authorities decided to prosecute him.

75.   But at the same time, the administration is putting a substantial military deployment into place around Bosnia.

76.   But Defence Minsiter George Fernandes, who was in Ahmedabad to oversee the military deployment, insisted that any delay had been purely logistical.

77.   But the largest US military deployments abroad since the start of the ongoing campaign in Afghanistan gathered pace here Tuesday with the arrival of more military equipment and personnel.

78.   But he declined to comment on any Philippine military deployment on the island.

79.   But Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday laid down tough conditions for Syrian participation, including an end to Syrian military deployment in Lebanon.

80.   Calls for an international military deployment in the Middle East, approved by the United Nations, have been growing in recent days.