11.  And while Izetbegovic has again promised to send home all foreign forces, he refused again, in his meeting with Christopher, to set a deadline.

12.  Because of the disintegration of the armed forces, Aristide has been left dependent on foreign military forces for the remainder of his term, which expires next February.

13.  A former Taliban front-line commander, Saif Rahman, was believed to be leading the Taliban and Taliban-allied foreign forces still in hiding there.

14.  A well-known former general, Obradovic said the Yugoslav military and Serb police could find an understanding with a foreign force.

15.  Addressing Russian worries, NATO has informed Moscow that it has no current plans permanently to station substantial numbers of foreign forces on the territory of new members.

16.  Burhanuddin Rabbani, the departing president of the alliance, and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a religious conservative, both expressed opposition to large foreign forces.

17.  But a large-scale invasion by a foreign occupying force would be avoided.

18.  But Milosevic has rejected the plan, vowing to fight any attempt to insert foreign forces into Serbian territory.

19.  But they did not get him, and Afghanistan has proved resistant, throughout its history, to foreign forces trying to operate there.

20.  Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Wednesday that the Afghans had an understandable aversion to foreign forces on their soil and were doing a good job of policing themselves.