21.   The case seems likely to complicate efforts by Milosevic to win foreign aid and the lifting of international sanctions as part of a peace deal.

22.   The Bush administration, now engaged in a general review of sanctions as a foreign policy tool, has given no indication of how it will deal with Afghanistan.

23.   The divisions reflect a larger debate over sanctions as a tool of foreign policy.

24.   The issue of how to use economic sanctions as a weapon of foreign policy has bedeviled and divided the Clinton administration over the last five years.

25.   The North declared that it would view any sanctions as an act of war.

26.   The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, defended the sanctions as having achieved results through a deliberate and coordinated strategy rather than violence.

27.   The U.S. has defended the Cuban sanctions as a tool of foreign policy, calling the WTO the wrong forum to arbitrate questions of national security.

28.   The U.S. could also occasionally use the threat of punitive trade sanctions as leverage, analysts said.

29.   The U.S. had defended the Cuban sanctions as a tool of foreign policy, calling the WTO the wrong forum to arbitrate questions of national security.

30.   The United States is threatening the trade sanctions as a way to pressure Japan to open up its markets, particularly for auto parts.