1.   ...the tiny U.N. observer force whose job it is to police the border.

2.   As a first step, he advocates a troop pullout from the West Bank and an international observer force to separate the belligerents.

3.   A Foreign Ministry spokesman said the government knew of no outside observer force on the ground in Israel or the West Bank.

4.   Dore Gold, an adviser to Sharon, said that the Palestinian Authority chairman, Yasser Arafat, would view an observer force as a victory.

5.   He also wants a permanent international observer force stationed in the Golan to insure that Israel lives up to its commitments.

6.   Observers estimate NATO forces have used hundreds of Tomahawks to blast targets in the Balkans.

7.   Palestinians have long sought an international observer force to be deployed in the West Bank and Gaza.

8.   The Palestinians garnered more sympathy from other Security Council members, with France proposing an unarmed observer force that would document any violence.

9.   Oslo has also been asked by both sides to set up a six-nation observer force for Hebron.

10.   Palestinian officials have endorsed the Mitchell Report despite their disappointment at its failure to back their demand for an international observer force in Gaza and the West Bank.