21.   The standards for acceptable behavior by belligerents and neutral countries had been part of the European tradition for hundreds of years.

22.   The Taliban has said that bin Laden could be surrendered to the OIC while a neutral country or the United Nations investigate claims about his guilt.

23.   They reasoned that Washington did not want control of Northern Ireland taken from its closest ally to the Irish Republic, a neutral country.

24.   Tripoli, in response, proposed trying the two suspects in a neutral country, but Washington and London would have none of it.

25.   Other longstanding neutral countries like Austria and Sweden have relaxed their positions.

26.   Portugal has been embarrassed by recently-unearthed historical evidence showing it was one of several neutral countries that obtained gold from Nazi Germany via Switzerland.

27.   President Festus Mogae of Botswana, a neutral country involved in peace negotiations, said he was disappointed over the last minute difficulties.

28.   President Festus Mogae of Botswana, a neutral country involved in peace negotiations, said he was disappointed over the last-minute holdups.

29.   A debate over whether this staunchly neutral country should join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been going on for months.

30.   A report issued earlier this month by Eizenstat looked at how neutral countries helped sustain the Nazi war effort through trade.