31.   Milhollin said a two-stage missile was too costly to construct simply for delivering conventional weapons.

32.   Nor would it make sense to continue pouring money into conventional weapons, so he proposed reducing the Soviet production of tanks, cannons and tactical aircraft.

33.   Nearly all of these planes are loaded with laser-guided bombs, which, while by no means miracle weapons, are much more accurate than conventional weapons.

34.   Neither does Moscow want NATO to improve military facilities like airfields and radar, or to transfer conventional weapons to new members.

35.   Official reports went so far as to say that the dam could withstand conventional weapons because of the thickness of its concrete walls.

36.   Outsiders are concerned that Russia has recently agreed to sell modern conventional weapons of various sorts to North Korea and Iran too.

37.   Seeking to ease Russian concerns about a NATO buildup on its periphery, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has proposed that conventional weapons in Central Europe not be increased.

38.   Seven years after the end of the Cold War, US arms makers and the government are partners in marketing advanced conventional weapons around the world.

39.   Some military analysts have described the suspected chemical arms factory as being all but impervious to conventional weapons because of its depth underground.

40.   Technology itself, he said, cannot replace conventional weapons and the strategic depth that Israel would lose by giving away the Golan Heights and especially Mount Hermon.