1.   He emphasized that NATO is not the whole of the Atlantic alliance, and not all questions can be settled at that level.

2.   Later, the French Defence Minister Pierre Joxe said that France had no intention of undermining the Atlantic alliance.

3.   Much as he desired to make cuts, Eisenhower in the end decided not to risk a general crisis in the Atlantic alliance by precipitate unilateral action.

4.   Because an Atlantic alliance that has brought us to this catastrophe should be wound up.

5.   But disputes about how to share the burdens of the Balkan mission have riven the Atlantic alliance.

6.   But NATO is an Atlantic military alliance with a clear purpose to subsume Germany and keep Russians in Russia.

7.   But to Russian journalists, he sounds lukewarm at best about the Atlantic alliance.

8.   Croatian officials said the Atlantic alliance had asked Tuesday for renewed permission to fly into Croatian airspace and Croatia had agreed to the request.

9.   He has been hard put to insist, when it comes to the Atlantic alliance, that he only wants to rock the boat, not to sink it.

10.   He has been hard put to insist, when it comes to the Atlantic alliance, that he wants to rock the boat, not sink it.