81.  But the issue of disarmament of the IRA and Protestant paramilitary groups is still likely to divide the political leaders.

82.  But the region where the Americans were kidnapped is one where right-wing paramilitary groups also have been extremely active in recent years.

83.  But the owner of a gun shop in Boulder said he was certain that some military personnel took part in activities of local paramilitary groups.

84.  But some victims are increasingly willing to speak out about their ordeals in the hopes of putting public pressure on the paramilitary groups.

85.  But state officials say it is often unclear whether the paramilitary groups are violating state laws.

86.  But the support of these paramilitary groups was convenient for the authorities.

87.  But this caution kept soldiers from the necessary jobs of disarming and arresting members of the Haitian military and a brutal paramilitary group known as Fraph.

88.  But unlike hard-core paramilitary groups, it does not emphasize military tactics.

89.  But, for the moment at least, Protestant neighborhoods were calm and the loyalist paramilitary groups held to a self-imposed cease-fire.

90.  By all accounts, the loyalist, or militant Protestant, paramilitary groups are split, too.