1.   If conventional chemo is like bombing an entire city to kill off a guerrilla force, the newer drugs aim to pick off the enemy and spare the civilians.

2.   Should diplomacy fail, Berger said, Iraq would face potent U.S.-led air strikes, with no guarantee civilians would be spared.

3.   Washington should work diplomatically for an early cease-fire to spare innocent civilians and allow the repatriation of tens of thousands of unarmed Hutu refugees trapped by the fighting.

4.   Rahimullah said the Northern Alliance supported the U.S.-led operation but said that it should spare civilians.

5.   But Odeh apparently said he would be willing to kill Americans outside Kenya if civilians were spared.

6.   By comparison, Putin has said recently that he was confident the attacks would spare civilians.

7.   Clinton asked Yeltsin to spare civilians.

8.   Despite orders to spare civilians, PFLP operations have caused casualties.

9.   Following similar incidents in which civilians were hurt, Lebanon has complained to a multinational committee monitoring a truce to spare civilians in the south.

10.   In New York, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on both sides to spare civilians and guarantee the safety of U.N. and other international humanitarian workers in the country.