11.   As they did during the gulf war, cruise lines have quickly changed from scheduled visits to Middle Eastern ports to presumably safer and more appealing harbors.

12.   Baghdad has rebuilt the air defense network that allied warplanes smashed during the gulf war, but American planes flying over southern Iraq have not been threatened.

13.   Before one of the most tranquilizing keynote addresses in modern convention history, the podium on Tuesday night seemed like a kind of class reunion for the gulf war.

14.   Before the gulf war, he held a good job there, but lost everything, including his son.

15.   Before the gulf war, Iraq, as is still maintained, had the fourth largest army in the world.

16.   Both were former Army personnel, and McVeigh apparently had seen action in the gulf war.

17.   -- Questions will again arise about why the Japanese do not do well in crises, such as the gulf war or terrorist hijackings.

18.   After the gulf war, the Iraqis agreed to pay claims approved by the U.N. Compensation Commission.

19.   After the gulf war, the U.N. inspection team tried to track down his weaponry, and got close.

20.   But as President Clinton considers his future military options, and comes under ever greater pressure to unseat Saddam, he may find the gulf war a useful guide.