1.   But the French government, under domestic pressure to bring its troops home, plans to withdraw its peacekeepers by Monday, French diplomats said on Tuesday.

2.   Lashing out in frustration over a war without end, the Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to lift the arms embargo on Bosnia if United Nations peacekeepers are safely withdrawn.

3.   On Monday Rwanda will face yet another potential crisis if France keeps to its plan to withdraw its peacekeepers.

4.   One officer in Brussels said allied intelligence assessments agreed that peace in Bosnia would collapse if the peacekeepers were withdrawn.

5.   Previously, Clinton had said U.S. forces would go into Bosnia only to enforce a peace treaty or to help withdraw U.N. peacekeepers if their mission were ended.

6.   Rather, if the crisis in Gorazde persists, it seems more likely to many people here that the new force would be used to withdraw the peacekeepers there.

7.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan recommended in a report to the Security Council on Sunday night that after four years of operation, the organization withdraw its peacekeepers.

8.   The U.N. rapid deployment force, Nunn said, could help reduce the risk to any U.S. troops used in an overall NATO operation to withdraw peacekeepers.

9.   A year after the United Nations withdrew its peacekeepers from Somalia, Security Council members on Friday urged the African nation to rebuild its shattered political system.

10.   And the prospect of renewed fighting in Croatia looms as the end of March approaches -- the date that Croatia wants the United Nations to begin withdrawing its peacekeepers.