81.   Among those delayed by the fog that has blanketed Tuzla since Wednesday are the first U.S. combat troops scheduled to arrive in Bosnia.

82.   And even the airtight bonds between the United States and Britain were loosened on the use of combat troops to try to deliver a knockout punch.

83.   Arroyo offered ports as staging areas or transit points for forces under the U.S.-led anti-terrorist coalition and said she would deploy combat troops if needed.

84.   Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, faced with a shortage of combat troops, has appealed to authorities in Serbia to return Bosnian Serb men.

85.   British officials said they had sufficient offers of combat troops, but were still looking for specialist units such as communications, transport, engineering and bomb disposal.

86.   British combat troops, who only recently began arriving, have yet to capture any enemy troops or be confronted with classifying al-Qaida detainees.

87.   Bush and Arroyo have agreed to allow U.S. military advisers to get closer to Basilan frontlines with local combat troops during the remaining weeks of the exercise.

88.   But he said his government will consider sending combat troops if the U.S. government formally makes such a request.

89.   But opposition politicians say the mission violates a Philippine constitutional clause restricting foreign combat troops on sovereign soil.

90.   Chancellor Helmut Kohl has said Germany would send supply and medical units because the history of Nazi atrocities in Yugoslavia makes it impossible to send combat troops.