11.   Britain and Spain have also warned they might have to pull their troops out of Bosnia.

12.   Britain did make a conciliatory gesture Thursday, as Mandelson announced that more troops were being pulled out of Northern Ireland.

13.   British and French diplomats say there are no plans to pull out troops, though the possibility has always been present.

14.   But Netanyahu refused to say whether he would pull Israeli troops out of most of the city, leaving only a contingent to guard the settlers.

15.   By last week, President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon was urging new peace talks and pulling his troops from rebel areas to show good faith.

16.   Confidants of Barak said on Tuesday that he was bound by his pledge to pull the troops out of southern Lebanon by July.

17.   Despite pulling its troops out of the NATO military command, France remained a NATO member.

18.   European countries would probably also pull their troops out at the same time the United States did, French officials said.

19.   Even so, the administration has been cautious about pulling troops from Bosnia because of promises that it would not unilaterally abandon the alliance and its mission there.

20.   Even when Russia pulls together the troops it needs, a dire cash shortage will make it difficult to send them to Kosovo.