41.   Lebanese troops joined police and civil defense units in the search for survivors.

42.   Military troops joined in the rescue effort, retrieving trapped people and distributing food, water and medicine to the homeless.

43.   NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson spent Friday in the north of this sparsely populated Scandinavian country watching military exercise in which Russian troops joined Norwegian NATO soldiers.

44.   Russian troops joined their former foes from NATO on Tuesday to learn how to work together in peacekeeping operations intended to contain conflicts before they become wars.

45.   Strong indication ground troops will join them.

46.   The French troops joined peacekeepers after a shell landed Saturday in the French Embassy compound, wounding seven people.

47.   The government has not announced whether British troops will join the ground campaign, but says it remains an option.

48.   The rebel Serbs have long feared that Croatian army troops would join forces with Bosnian Croats in the area.

49.   The rebel Serbs have long feared that regular Croat troops would join forces with Bosnian Croats in the area.

50.   Turkish troops also are joining the NATO peace mission in Bosnia in the U.S. sector in Tuzla.