71.   Rescue efforts were hampered by snow, continuing tremors and the war between the military alliance controlling the region and the Taliban movement.

72.   Russia has long favored strengthening the OSCE as a sort of civilian analog to NATO, the Western military alliance built to stand sentry against the former Soviet Union.

73.   Seoul is almost certain to continue its tight military alliance with the US.

74.   Shoval said, for example, that a Palestinian state will not be able to form any military alliances.

75.   Similarly, the Continental Congress ordered a day of thanks after our military alliance with France was signed.

76.   Still, US officials are stressing the importance of the military alliance to Japan.

77.   Talk that this is a different NATO, a NATO that is no longer a military alliance, is ridiculous.

78.   Still, the United States stopped well short of saying how it would respond or creating a de facto military alliance with Taiwan.

79.   The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, or APEC, is no mini-NATO, the U.S.-led military alliance in Europe.

80.   The accident stirred an outcry in Japan and raised new questions about the often contentious U.S.-Japanese military alliance.