31.   The mission, the alliance says, is not to protect civilians.

32.   The military medical system operates without the most significant safeguards protecting civilians from malpractice.

33.   The placement of thousands of peacekeepers in Bosnia under a vague mandate to protect civilians was supposed to reduce violence.

34.   The presence of the Rapid Reaction troops in Sarajevo is not intended to protect civilians from Bosnian Serb fire, U.N. officials said.

35.   The Serbs insist that they need heavy weapons to protect Serbian civilians living in sections of the capital under their control.

36.   The world has changed some, in its disapproval of violence and sense of a minimal responsibility to protect innocent civilians.

37.   Their interventions have the destructive consequence of prolonging the state of war, but they can at least protect civilians from its consequences.

38.   The urgent need is a diplomatic campaign to secure a cease-fire aimed at protecting civilians, including both Zairians and Rwandan Hutu refugees caught up in the conflict.

39.   U.N. commanders did not make contact with NATO on the possibility of staging air strikes to protect the civilians in Bihac, a military spokesman said.

40.   What is clear is that both sides must take care to protect civilians.