31.  Indeed the threat against which U.S. forces would be deployed has been vastly exaggerated.

32.  It is deploying a force that could push Iraqi troops well away from the border of Kuwait, if necessary, and keep them away, Pentagon officials said.

33.  Military planners would not have chosen Yugoslavia as the ideal place to deploy overwhelming force, but at this point the United States has little choice.

34.  NATO Secretary General Javier Solana repeated that there is no intention of deploying ground forces, though the alliance is actively assessing the requirements for such a move.

35.  Pakistan is also insisting that moderate elements of the Taliban be included in a new government and that an international peacekeeping force be deployed.

36.  Security forces are being deployed to keep the peace during the convention or the first political face-off at the national committee meeting this morning.

37.  Since end of the Vietnam War, the United States has deployed more forces to the Atlantic and Europe than to the Pacific and Asia.

38.  Some British forces are also deployed.

39.  The Bush administration has belatedly deployed its forces for a propaganda war to win over the Arab public.

40.  The first task would be to seize airfields and ports so an invasion force could be deployed.