41.   More than a dozen non-NATO countries have also offered to send forces.

42.   NATO nations would have to make a separate decision to actually send the force.

43.   No force could be sent under such adverse conditions, the secretary-general concluded.

44.   No German forces will be sent to the Gulf, although German air bases will be available for transshipping U.S. supplies and troops.

45.   Now NATO is sending heavy forces into a war that did not involve an attack on any member, or a direct military threat.

46.   Officials of both countries have attacked the Clinton administration for favoring measures that would put their soldiers at risk while refusing itself to send ground forces to Bosnia.

47.   Opposition operations in northern Iraq had a setback in September when Iraq sent its forces into the Kurdish region.

48.   Otherwise presumably its members would get so mad they might not ask us to send our forces the next time a corner of Europe gets itself in trouble.

49.   Political analysts said any decision on sending ground forces into Kosovo needs to be resolved in the next three weeks.

50.   Pakistan said it will not send forces outside its borders, but would consider letting US warplanes fly over its airspace.