1.   Although ostensibly there for peace-keeping duties, the increased troop presence heightened fears among Croats of a creeping military takeover.

2.   Still, laws in the Netherlands, allow such a tactic, known as a creeping takeover.

3.   U.S. courts have rejected this strategy, known as a creeping takeover, because of its obvious drawbacks for remaining stockholders.

4.   The Communist leader, Gennady Zyuganov, also appeared to be in disagreement with party radicals, proposing a creeping hard-line takeover.