41.  Officials emphasized that a new American attack did not appear imminent.

42.  Other Palestinians said they believed that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would use the American attacks as justification for stepping up Israeli attacks on Palestinian targets.

43.  People in Karam said they had felt in no particular danger of an American attack.

44.  Predictions of civil war are not taken lightly, and the religious extremists have dominated the headlines since the first American attacks on Afghanistan.

45.  Rep. Curt Weldon announced he will vote to impeach President Clinton and questioned the timing of the American attack launched on Iraq Wednesday.

46.  Saudi Arabia has been somewhat lukewarm publicly, especially toward the American attacks on a Muslim nation, although both sides say there is cooperation.

47.  Russia and the Arab world are now urging Saddam Hussein to readmit U.N. weapons inspectors to avoid a large-scale American attack.

48.  Sometimes it is also left vulnerable when the defenders sprint ahead in the aggressive American attack.

49.  Some of those neighbors are worried about the American attack helicopters and military advisers headed here.

50.  Sometimes his sector seems to be where the American attack disappears, but Arena stares down the critics.