1.   NATO troops initially came to Macedonia last fall as a contingency force to extract international truce monitors in Kosovo if needed.

2.   While other mutual fund companies may not have gone as far as Vanguard in setting up a contingency force, they have emergency plans.

3.   Bruised by earlier ventures into chronic ethnic conflicts, major powers are unwilling to volunteer troops for a contingency force that could be sent to Burundi.

4.   Boutros-Ghali said that the weekend massacre in central Bugendana should spur efforts to form a multinational contingency force.

5.   But western diplomats said that no western countries were prepared to contribute troops to the multinational contingency force recommended by Boutros-Ghali.

6.   The troops are being deployed as a contingency force, Pentagon spokesman Major Tom LaRock told AFP.

7.   The troops have been given no specific orders and are being deployed as a contingency force, Pentagon spokesman Major Tom LaRock told AFP Friday.

8.   The UN secretary-general acknowledged difficulties Tuesday in putting together a humanitarian contingency force which could intervene in Burundi in the case of an ethnic disaster.

9.   Until now, no western country has shown any willingness to contribute troops to the multinational contingency force recommended by Boutros-Ghali since the beginning of the year.