31.  In Brussels on Tuesday, Defense Secretary William Perry urged NATO allies to support the creation of such a force.

32.  Instead, the Nike-Jordan partnership has become such a force that teen-agers develop relationships with shoe salesmen like older people do with their brokers.

33.  It all relates, of course, to the hyper-organized religious right, such a force now in the nuts and bolts of GOP nominating.

34.  NATO has said that it wants an international security force in Kosovo and that it stands ready to create such a force.

35.  NATO leaders are insisting that their troops be the core of such a force and that they be under NATO command, with U.N. authorization.

36.  President Bush does not want the United States to take a lead role in such a force.

37.  President Clinton has said he favors such a force, and has agreed to provide U.S. air power, intelligence resources and other military support.

38.  Rifkin said it was the first time in UN history that such a force had been created.

39.  Robb said he would prefer the United States to provide air support from bases outside Bosnia, with European countries supplying ground troops for such a force.

40.  Such a force would require tanks and fast-moving light infantry, said Atkeson, a senior fellow at the Institute of Land Warfare in Arlington, Va.