51.  That vow will be tested quickly, Clinton said, and U.S. and British forces that nearly struck Iraq on Saturday will remain poised to act.

52.  The British are concerned that bad weather will interfere with ground operations, forcing U.S. and British forces to slow the pace of the fighting until the spring.

53.  The British force succeeded in this goal.

54.  The British forces in Bosnia were hamstrung because, under their political mandate, they could not take tough action that was clearly needed.

55.  The arrival of the British forces followed several weeks of negotiation, and preceded by several hours the U.N. Security Council passage of a resolution authorizing their deployment.

56.  The commander of the British forces, Brig. Roger Lane, is already here, but most of his troops are not expected until next week.

57.  The British forces had spent the day journeying into Pristina, becoming the first Western presence in Kosovo in nearly three months.

58.  The British forces involved in the fighting had been heading for Bennington, on orders from Gen. John Burgoyne, to seize American supplies.

59.  The hotel director called British forces, who for awhile tolerated the party with loud Albanian folk music.

60.  The hate and fear that British forces now see and feel here, they say, resembles what they encountered in Northern Ireland.