41.   Last year President Clinton ordered a similar military buildup in the gulf when Saddam sent Republican Guard troops after ethnic Kurds in northern Iraq.

42.   Look at the escalating U.S. military buildup in the Gulf area.

43.   Meanwhile, the military buildup continued Wednesday as two aircraft carriers -- the U.S.S. Eisenhower and the U.S.S. America -- steamed for the Caribbean.

44.   Much of the rest of the country is now under tenuous government control, a result of a military buildup, aid workers and diplomats say.

45.   Moreover, at the time Japan was engaged in a furious military buildup that in a few months would plunge Asia, and then the world, into war.

46.   New evidence of an Iraqi military buildup has helped the United States beat back an effort to lift United Nations sanctions against Baghdad, senior administration officials said Saturday.

47.   Not waiting for public opinion, a U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf continued.

48.   Others have complained about the rising costs of the military buildup.

49.   Perry consulted on Sunday with leaders in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain, seeking support for the American military buildup in the region.

50.   Prewar military buildup, including supplies shipped to the Allies, already had the economy on an upswing.