61.  The Bush administration also wants North Korea to ease the threat that its massive conventional military forces along the border pose to South Korea.

62.  The Bosnian Serb forces, armed by Milosevic from the arsenals of the former Yugoslav National Army, was a conventional fighting force.

63.  The negotiations were part of the broader effort to update the treaty governing conventional military forces in Europe.

64.  The primary lesson he had learned from Vietnam, he said, was that it is impossible to fight a guerrilla war with only conventional forces.

65.  The report challenges the belief that nuclear forces are less costly than conventional forces.

66.  The United States will have to renounce its plans to develop a national ABM system in order to preserve Start II and the agreement limiting conventional forces in Europe.

67.  There were also reports that the White House might offer additional cuts in conventional forces in Europe.

68.  They announced some progress on disputes over treaties on conventional forces and anti-ballistic missiles.

69.  They were especially worried, these officials said, that an expensive missile defense would drain dollars from conventional forces.

70.  This is not the first time the United States offered to amend the conventional forces treaty to meet Russian concerns.