31.   Japan will initiate a major change in its defense policies, he said, reducing budgets while shifting away from land forces toward sea and air power.

32.   Nash says the British and French are especially determined to see the war through, having unveiled last year an ambitious plan to create a common European defense policy.

33.   National-security matters, defense policy and international issues are not foremost in the minds of most African-Americans.

34.   Nor had it prepared its European allies or the Russians for such a dramatic change in defense policy.

35.   On foreign and defense policy, the early signals look less divisive.

36.   Oversimplifying foreign and defense policy.

37.   Paris has found its destiny in the European Union, whose plans for a common defense policy make the idea of an independent French nuclear force anachronistic.

38.   Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., an expert on defense policy, disagreed.

39.   Rifkind said foreign and defense policy must remain the responsibility of national governments.

40.   Sen. Spencer Abraham, R-Mich., noted that not all senators have been in the military, yet they decide defense policy.