1.   Bombing, he asserted, was the way to avoid the unpleasant Decision to send combat troops.

2.   Heavily-armed combat troops were deployed on the streets of the capital yesterday.

3.   Alone among leaders in Asia, she has offered combat troops, pending the consent of the Philippine Congress.

4.   American combat troops for Operation Anaconda told a Pentagon pool reporter from the Associated Press harrowing tales of being pinned down by hostile fire.

5.   And it has reduced the need for American combat troops, so far.

6.   And President Clinton wants to be able to assure Congress and the American people that he can withdraw combat troops within a year or so.

7.   Armed Marines would move immediately into Kosovo, followed by Army tanks and combat troops.

8.   As part of that review, Leahy said Congress should consider sending in American combat troops.

9.   As NATO wrestles with whether to dispatch combat troops to Kosovo, there is no longer a unified NATO strategy about how to win the war.

10.   Blair has argued that combat troops are not an option because of the numbers needed and the time it would take to assemble them.