51.   Aristide, a Roman Catholic priest, emerged from meetings with U.S. officials in Washington to express gratitude to President Clinton for sending troops into his country.

52.   Army troops were sent to villages scattered along the lower hem of the volcano, ready to initiate evacuation plans if necessary.

53.   At the time, Yeltsin said that he would not send troops to Chechnya.

54.   Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Malaysia and France have offered to send troops.

55.   Bay State lawmakers chip in with their opinions about sending ground troops into Kosovo.

56.   Blair was portrayed the previous day as being in favor of sending ground troops into Kosovo, a move that Clinton had strongly opposed.

57.   Both candidates acknowledged implicitly that hindsight was easier when it came to sending American troops to fight overseas, and possibly die there.

58.   A plurality of those polled by the Pew Research Center disapproved of sending US troops to Kosovo as peacekeepers.

59.   A senior U.N. official later said the Rwandan government had promised that it would not send troops into the safe zone without U.N. approval.

60.   A U.S. official said Washington anticipated additional troops would be sent to Yugoslavia because Hungary had granted a Russian request for overflight rights for its troop transport planes.