1.   For one thing, the tantalizingly flat farmland separating alliance forces from the Afghan capital is deceptive.

2.   No sooner had Israeli and Palestinian officials managed to separate their forces in Ramallah than new gunfire was reported on the outskirts of Bethlehem.

3.   Separating the forces of the Bosnian-Croat federation and those of the new Serbian republic will mean routinely doing business with representatives of the two men.

4.   The buffer zone was established by NATO at the end of the Kosovo war as a way of separating the forces of Slobodan Milosevic from NATO forces inside Kosovo.

5.   The job is going to be to separate the forces.

6.   The troops would separate warring forces for about a year and allow wounds of the devastating conflict to heal.

7.   U.N. officials and U.S. diplomats agree that combatants should be disarmed only after fighting has stopped and peacekeepers can begin to separate the forces.

8.   Peru rejected a proposed plan to separate the forces because it would have left Ecuadorean troops in Peruvian territory, Zela said.

9.   However recent unconfirmed reports have indicated skirmishes between the PUK and KDP along the buffer line that separates their forces.

10.   However, negotiations have been stalled most of the week in the first effort to separate the forces, on Mount Igman southwest of Sarajevo.