81.   If Russian soldiers participated in the force, they would do so under arrangements to be made in the future, the administration said.

82.   If that happened today, dozens of agencies would respond in sometimes overlapping or contradictory ways, the administration said.

83.   If convicted, Saeed could be sentenced to death and hanged, an outcome that the Bush administration has said would be satisfactory, a senior Pakistani official said.

84.   If necessary, the administration said, it might back out of the treaty unilaterally.

85.   In a press release about the new directive, the Clinton administration said that such export relaxation is inevitable.

86.   In a friend-of-the-court brief, the Clinton administration said the New York federal appeals court went too far.

87.   In a separate argument, the Clinton administration said that Missouri has not followed proper procedures by initiating its request at the lower-court level.

88.   In addition, the administration says it will demand that Medicaid remain a guaranteed program for eligible poor and disabled Americans.

89.   In a countermove, the Clinton administration said it may invoke its national security interest to counter an adverse ruling.

90.   In essence, the administration is saying the military should reduce forces to what is required to win one war decisively and carry out a holding action elsewhere.