1.   The Bosnian crisis has cast the United States as the central figure in a test of the global will to police itself.

2.   The study concludes that on balance, global warming will likely benefit American agriculture.

3.   A quick end to the joint U.S.-British air campaign in Afghanistan will help maintain the global will to fight terrorism, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday.

4.   The world body is being made a scapegoat for the lack of global will to act, said Kofi Annan, the head of U.N. peacekeeping.

5.   U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday that a quick end to U.S.-British attacks on Afghanistan would help maintain the global will to stop terrorism.

6.   Global political will to back UN peacekeeping operations is diminishing following setbacks in recent conflicts and mounting financial costs, an international conference here was warned Monday.