71.   When Soviet troops withdrew, Massoud served briefly as defense minister and prime minister in the last government before the Taliban overran Kabul.

72.   When the troops withdrew from Lebanon in May, Hezbollah, whose name means Party of God, claimed a signal victory in the long struggle with Israel.

73.   When those occupation troops withdrew a decade later, normalization had become further entangled in domestic politics.

74.   When the Soviet troops withdrew, those armed leaders disintegrated into a ragtag army of local warlords.

75.   Who will arm and train the Bosnian Muslims if a Balkan arms control policy alone does not level the military playing field before NATO troops withdraw?

76.   Yet it was right that the multinational forces of Operation Desert Storm ended their military action in compliance with a U.N. Security Council resolution as Iraqi troops withdrew.

77.   Order was restored only after an Australian-led peacekeeping force arrived and Indonesian troops withdrew.

78.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat emerged from his West Bank headquarters Thursday, just hours after Israeli troops withdrew from the besieged compound.

79.   Palestinian police, meanwhile, use wooden replicas of rifles to train for duty in Hebron once Israeli troops withdraw from most of the city.

80.   Palestinians hoped Israeli troops would withdraw last summer from the occupied territory.