1.  A United Nations peace-keeping force has been sent to the area.

2.  Additional forces were sent to these frontier outposts to give them protection insofar as limited resources would permit.

3.  Herrera endeavored to placate the opposition by making preliminary defense preparations and by sending additional forces to the Rio Grande.

4.  At a meeting of the Western European Union several countries confirm they are sending military forces to the Gulf.

5.  Mitterrand announces that French ground forces will be sent.

6.  France sends naval forces to Gulf.

7.  Both the US and the USSR sent naval forces to manoeuvre about the Indian Ocean and both sought bases on the South Arabian coast.

8.  The American services -- other than the navy -- were still reluctant or unable to send forces into the eastern Mediterranean.

9.  An increasingly desperate president unavailingly demanded that at least a token British force should be sent to Vietnam.

10.  The United Kingdom has agreed to send forces for humanitarian relief in Bosnia as long as an effective ceasefire holds.