71.   Peace efforts are deadlocked over the scope of a further Israeli troop withdrawal in the area that would turn over additional territory to the Palestinian Authority.

72.   Other US officials said it is too early to know whether the fury will calm and troop withdrawals will continue from the West Bank.

73.   Pressed on whether the two men reached any agreement on Israeli troop withdrawal, Powell indicated that the military operation might continue beyond his stay here.

74.   Previously, Syria had voiced opposition to an Israeli troop withdrawal that was not part of an Israeli-Syrian agreement.

75.   Putin declared Chechnya at peace last spring and announced the start of a troop withdrawal, but the pullback has yet to be completed.

76.   Russian President Boris Yeltsin has linked early troop withdrawals from Latvia and Estonia to the minority rights issue.

77.   Russian officials were even talking about starting troop withdrawals from Chechnya.

78.   Seven months ago, after the signing of the Wye agreemnt, Halhoul unfurled banners in anticipation of troop withdrawals and a visit by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

79.   Speaking sanguinely in Jerusalem Monday, he addressed a rising concern that a unilateral troop withdrawal could produce violent chaos in the border region or even provoke a war.

80.   Soon after the Israeli troop withdrawal early Wednesday, Palestinians fired more mortars from the area.