71.   Privately, officials have long admitted that the threats are little more than posturing, much of it intended to force the warring parties to sit down and negotiate.

72.   Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind., said Berger indicated that NATO would not send ground troops until the warring parties negotiated a solution.

73.   Separating the warring parties has been a snap, by comparison.

74.   Since he took office, Clinton has said U.S. ground troops would serve in Bosnia only if and when the warring parties reached a peace agreement.

75.   Should Lake and Tarnoff succeed, Holbrooke may be called upon to sell the policy to the warring parties.

76.   Soldiers has been trying to identify mine fields with the help of maps from the former warring parties.

77.   So Wahid, who remains personally popular, is still the most acceptable figure among the warring parties.

78.   Such an airlift would violate the Security Council embargo on the shipment of weapons to the warring parties in the former Yugoslavia.

79.   Such an operation could encounter serious resistance from both warring parties and would place US troops in the battlefields of Bosnia for the first time.

80.   Tagliabue will listen to the warring parties Tuesday on a telephone conference call and may make a decision as early as Wednesday or Thursday.