1.   -- NATO ambassadors formally approved an order to deploy the peacekeepers, who were expected to enter starting on Saturday.

2.   Greece, whose peacekeepers are deployed in southern Kosovo alongside the Americans and Poles, has said it will contribute.

3.   If U.N. peacekeepers eventually are deployed in rebel-held areas, similar suffering may turn up elsewhere.

4.   Nigeria has deployed peacekeepers under dubious mandates in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

5.   The war was over, and the United Nations took on the task of deploying peacekeepers and settling the border lines for good.

6.   While the United States and others dickered over how they might be equipped, no new peacekeepers were deployed.

7.   Peres said he opposed Palestinian attempts to persuade the United Nations to deploy peacekeepers in the area to protect Palestinian civilians.

8.   Other possibilities under consideration are deploying the peacekeepers to more secure positions, extending NATO air cover, and creating a fortified supply corridor from Sarajevo to coastal ports.

9.   Peacekeepers were deployed in the enclave to ensure it would stay safe.

10.   Plans to deploy U.N. peacekeepers along the border starting Wednesday were put on hold, an official Lebanese statement said.