21.   The Pakistanis want India to reduce the number of troops along the border and to allow international negotiations on the future of Kashmir.

22.   The primary mission of the NATO force will be to separate the Bosnian Serb army from Croatian and Bosnian government troops along a border established in the peace agreement.

23.   The two nuclear-armed countries have massed a total of a million troops along their border.

24.   There also has been a buildup of troops along the southern border with Macedonia and the army is reported to have mined a bridge near the frontier.

25.   They include highly publicized immigration crackdowns in states like California, experiments with stationing U.S. troops along the border and efforts to strengthen the presence of the Border Patrol.

26.   They range from the deployment of troops along key borders to air strikes against selected targets.

27.   To put some muscle behind its words, China has deployed tens of thousands of troops along its southern coast directly opposite the autonomous island.

28.   U.N. officials have confirmed that the Bosnian army and the Serbs have amassed thousands of troops along a front stretching between the towns of Visoko and Olovo.

29.   With a million troops along the border, there is also talk again of war.

30.   Other officials say that the huge numbers of Indian troops along the frontier may have reduced crossings.