31.   Throughout this vast land studded with diamonds and gold, people are angry with President Mobutu Sese Seko for impoverishing what should be a prosperous nation.

32.   U.S. officials also have been sounding out wealthy Persian Gulf countries and other prosperous nations elsewhere in an effort to finance the force.

33.   U.S. officials have said they hope newly prosperous Asian nations will contribute, but acknowledge they have no firm commitments.

34.   Two prosperous Danube nations, Germany and Austria, are now responsible for the bulk of the flow.

35.   Vietnam has benefited by strengthening ties with a prosperous nation offering technology and capital it needs to help grow its emerging free market economy.

36.   Karzai said Afghans yearned to once again live in a prosperous nation, and that corruption and bureaucracy must be eliminated to encourage foreign investment.

37.   Mugabe, once hailed for leading a peaceful and prosperous nation, finds himself the target of sanctions over his autocratic style and his violent crackdown on dissent.