51.   Lott and other Senate Republican leaders had considered a alternative, a bill to require the president to seek congressional approval before deploying ground troops.

52.   Master Sgt. Kelly Tyler, a public affairs spokeswoman, said the division had received no new orders and there were no special preparations to deploy troops.

53.   McCurry said the American troops had been deployed only to help evacuate U.S. citizens in Zaire, not to play a wider role in a change in government.

54.   National Guard units were on standby, but no troops were deployed Monday.

55.   NATO would have to make a separate decision to actually deploy the troops.

56.   Neither did he provide guidelines for deciding when he would choose to deploy troops.

57.   Now troops can be deployed only with special permission from the secretary of defense or his deputy.

58.   Only a few thousand Syrian troops were deployed, but the presence of soldiers from such a staunch Arab nationalist country carried heavy symbolic weight.

59.   Opponents complained that the Clinton administration should have consulted Congress before deploying troops to those countries.

60.   Portugal, France and Britain also said they would support a UN force, but no one seemed willing yet to deploy troops against the wishes of Indonesia.