71.   While the CIA has provided covert support to Iraqi dissidents in the past, this is the first overt military assistance.

72.   When the Bush administration suspended open military assistance to Guatemala to protest the killing, the CIA continued secretly to provide money.

73.   While Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin threatened to provide military assistance to the Serbs, a traditional Russian ally, analysts doubt Russia has the power to challenge NATO.

74.   Pakistan denies giving insurgents military assistance but is sympathetic to their cause and has offered diplomatic and moral support.

75.   Putin did not touch on the issue of direct military assistance in his address.

76.   A congressional bill calling for an end to military assistance and training funds for Indonesia is currently being debated in the United States.

77.   A French delegation has already traveled to Uzbekistan to gauge the level of military assistance needed to help humanitarian organizations in northern Afghanistan.

78.   A Paris newspaper quoted Rainsy as saying the Cambodian government wanted the three tourists killed so foreign governments would condemn the Khmer Rouge and increase military assistance to Cambodia.

79.   A FARC billboard denouncing U.S. military assistance to Colombia loomed over the plaza.

80.   A senior Nigeria government official said he believed Kabila was planning to ask Abubakar for military assistance.