1.   As investigators combed the site, NATO troops protected the area and NATO aircraft buzzed overhead.

2.   In Bosnia, American troops are protecting Muslim civilians.

3.   Its troops protect the governments of both its northern oil-producing neighbors.

4.   Now Macedonia is hoping that those NATO troops will protect them from attack from Yugoslavia.

5.   The Dutch troops neither protected the Muslims in their care nor alerted UN higher-ups immediately to the resulting slaughter.

6.   The foreign troops cannot protect every street, and many Dili residents still feel it is too risky to return home.

7.   The investigators, protected by troops from the NATO peace-keeping force, or IFOR, want to unearth the graves and have forensic scientists examine the remains.

8.   The Muslims and the Serbs have little stomach for Western assurances that international troops will protect them from each other.

9.   The only way it can safely leave is if U.S. troops are protecting its borders and those of the Palestinian state.

10.   Thirty years after federal troops protected the first black students to attend Hayneville High School, whites have fled to private academies and schools in other counties.