41.   Neither Rumsfeld nor Myers would say Tuesday whether U.S. and allied troops would be used, or the task would be left to forces opposing the Taliban in Afghanistan.

42.   Other requests, such as replacing US troops in the Balkans with other allied troops, may or may not be necessary.

43.   She followed the Allied troops in Berlin, apparently the first female correspondent to do so.

44.   Skirmishes continued in the region Friday as US and allied troops chased small groups of fleeing Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.

45.   Some two dozen accredited journalists landed with Allied troops on D-Day, Rather pointed out.

46.   Some argue that allied troops will be doomed to failure because they do not know the rugged terrain and because Taliban defectors would be unlikely to join non-Muslims.

47.   Ten days are spent in Bayeux, the first town taken by Allied troops, studying the events with lecturers and on field trips.

48.   The battle plan was for allied Afghan troops to go on the offensive while the U.S. units did the blocking.

49.   The accords, written by NATO allies, call for a cease-fire in Kosovo that would be policed by allied troops.

50.   The bulk of the allied troops would be in the remainder of Kosovo as a way of enticing the ethnic Albanian refugees back to their homeland.