1. During their meeting, Clinton and Hashimoto focused on security issues including Japanese support in Iraq and Bosnia and the current deployment of U.S. troops in Okinawa. 2. Even meeting the current deployment schedule is doubtful, according to the General Accounting Office, the independent investigative arm of Congress. 3. It will also have to maintain its current military deployments in Asia. 4. The two men focused on security issues including Japanese support in Iraq and Bosnia and the current deployment of U.S. troops in Okinawa. 5. U.S. officials said, before the current deployment, that they did not wish to send U.S. troops into Bosnia until Karadzic and Mladic were removed from power. 6. Germany has a primarily logistical role in the current multinational deployment, delivering supplies from Croatia to NATO comrades in Bosnia. 7. Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit said Friday that the current deployment of Russian missiles on a Greek island off Turkey could harm Greece. 8. Rifkind, however, called explicitly for an extension of the current deployment or the dispatch of new troops. 9. The current deployment, Ralston said, will directly support aircraft under the command of the North American Aerospace Defense Command. 10. The United States may use its current anti-terror military deployment in the Philippines to realign its forces towards Southeast Asia, diplomats and analysts said Thursday. |